Video of Spinalonga Island
Caption: WELCOME TO Spinalonga
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Caption: 📍 Nicknamed as the island of the living dead, Spinalonga, lies at the natural harbor of Elounda in the prefecture of Lassithi in Crete. •The island can easily be accessed from Plaka, Elounda and Agios Nikolaos.
•Tourist boats depart from all three towns on a daily basis
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Caption: Spinalonga has a rather interesting history, even before it served as • a leper colony •
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Caption: The landscape of the island is too beautiful to be real
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Caption: Ruins in Spinalonga
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Caption: This, she speculated, might be a place where history was still warm, not stone cold, where the inhabitants were really not mythical”... as Victoria Hislop wrote in her best-selling book “The Island”.
Video of Spinalonga
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Caption: People from Crete and other parts of Greece suffering from leprosy were sent to live out their days on this small island.
At that time leprosy was still seen as a highly contagious and incurable disease.
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Caption: The Cemetery of The island
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