Tilos Greece Tour and Travel Guide Hotels Flights
How to get there
BY AIR (Via Athens) :
You can fly from Athens to Rhodes or from Athens to Cos ( it takes 40 min) and vice-versa. Then you go on either from Rhodes by ship. (The trip lasts 3,30 h.) or you can take the ship from Cos as it comes back from Patmos island. If you are in Rhodes, ask for information at the Port Police (Tel. 27690)
BY SEA:
Daily departures from Piraeus at 12:45 a.m. with the ships of D.A.N.E Sea Line. But you have to stop and change ship at Cos or Rhodes.
If you want to go to Tilos directly without changing a ship, there is a departure once a week from Piraeus. The trip lasts 18 hours.
General and Useful information
Tilos is 64 sq. km in area and has a population of 300 with a number of small villages like Gera, Roukouni, Agriosykia, Mikro Chorio, Misargia, Kato Choria, Scafi, Megalo Chorio, Livadia, only the last two are inhabited.
TILOS’ POLICE STATION:
Tel. 44222 (Livadia area)
MEDICAL SERVICE:
Tel. 44210 ( the doctor speaks English and Italian)
POST OFFICE - TELEPHONES - TELEGRAMS:
You can be served at Megalo Chorio, but mostly at Livadia.
TRANSPORT SERVICE:
From Livadia to Megalo Chorio by bus or taxi. When you get a taxi the price is not fixed, but you can make a deal with the driver. You can also have a tour all around Tilos by a small ship.
BEACHES:
Mile-long beach in Livadia, stony at village end, shingle with sandy patches at the far end. Several other isolated coves accessible by boat and by walking. Sandy beach at Eristos (about 10 km from Livadia). Mile-long beach in Lethra, Agios Apostolos and Plaka (at Megalo Chorio)
SIGHT - SEEEING
MEGALO CHORIO: It is the capital of Tilos since the ancient times, built within the fortress and round it on the slopes of the mountain. The church of Archangel Michael was built then just outside the Hellenistic walls.
Big silver icons from the church of Taxiarchis in the castle were carried here. It’s worth seeing the wood-carved iconostasis with the pulpit and throne, works of mid 19th century. Inside and round Megalo Chorio there are numerous little 15th century churches with fine fresco-Paintings.
AGIOS ANTONIOS: A small port on the NE part of the gulf, with a few houses, a restaurant and a hotel. The most unusual thing to see is the "beach Rocks" on the coast with human skeletons dating from the 5th century B.C.
PLAKA: 3 km to the left of Agios Antonios. We get to a beautiful beach and the Plaka estate which belonged to the monastery of St. Panteleimon, which is 2 km from Plaka. It’s a road along the edge of a precipice leads to a fantastic scenery almost at the top of the mountain. Sunset is a sensational sight from up there!
