Nisyros

Nisyros is one of the most beautiful Aegean islands, still untouched by the tourism growth.According to mythology, this island was created from the Battle of Giants, during the war between Gods and Giants.  Poseidon pursued the Giant, Polyvotis up to Kos island, cut a part of it and threw it  to his enemy, sinking him for ever in the bottom of the Aegean Sea.  The legendary rock is the modern Nisyros and it is said that the volcano’s explosions are the angry breathing of the defeated Giant. These explosions shaped Nisyros, which is considered to be the youngest volcanic centre in Greece, still active – along with the volcanoes of Mylos, Santorini and Methanoi. During antiquity the island had a prosperous obsidian commerce, extracted by the inhabitants of Nisyros, from the near island, Gyali.  The island extends over a surface of 41 km2, its coastline is 28 km long and it has 1,000 inhabitants. It can be reached by ferry from Kos and Rhodes.