Visit Alonissos Island for unforgettable vacations!!!

Protected Island by WWF and  by the European Programme "NATURA".

First National Marine Park of Greece.

Alonissos island located in the central part of the Aegean Sea.

A unique island characterized by the harmony of its nature, the hospitality and traditions of the locals, the exceptional cuisine and the beautiful beaches.

At Alonissos you can enjoy the sea, visit the sea park where the endangered Monachus seals breed, you can relax and have some real fun.

Marine Park
In the spring of 1976 captain John’s boat left Patitiri and headed towards Piperi, the northernmost island of the Sporades complex. The only two passengers on board, Dr. Thomas-Schultze Westrum, a Zoology, Geology and Cultural Anthropology expert, and Kurt Lorenz, an experienced cameraman, were going to play a significant part in the future of Alonissos. Their mission was to track down a sea mammal, which European experts considered extinct, and record some footage on a 16mm camera. The mammal in question was the Monachus-monachus seal, a species that used to be very common in the Aegean and the Ionian Sea, as well as in Crete, Sicily and Malta.

This film, entitled “The coast of the seal”, was screened all over the world causing major surprise immediately followed by skepticism. It was made obvious that the Sporades complex - twenty islands with limited human presence and singular coastlines - was the ideal environment for the survival of the species.

Pressured by international associations for the protection of wildlife, on the 31st of August 1986 the prefecture decided to create a marine park in the northern part of the Sporades Islands.

Around the same time (1988) an environmental organization called MOm (Society for the Study and Protection of the Monk Seal), an official member of the IUCN (International Union for the Conservation of Nature), decided to take immediate action. Nowadays, it is estimated that the number of the seals in the north of the Sporades Islands is a stunning 250. The majority is located around the desert islands of Gioura and Piperi.”.