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About the Greek Island of Andros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Andros
ISLAND GROUP: Cyclades Islands
POPULATION: 2306 (2001 consensus) of which about 896 live in the Mesaria Municipality.
GENERAL IMPRESSION: Nice feel of it being under-populated for it's size given that it's one of the larger islands. None of the towns are of substantial. The island is "neat" with a lot of Athenian owned homes scattered around the villages. Lots of dramatic and attractive scenery with contrasting tree-clad mountains divided by large fertile plains.
GEOGRAPHY: Andros is the northern most island of the Cyclades and the second largest in size after the island of Naxos, with a size of 380 square kilometers. It has a length of roughly 40Km and width roughly 17Km. It is 36 nautical miles from the port of Rafina. It is the geographical southerly continuance of the island of Evia, from which it is separated by the straight of Kafireas, better known as Cavo Doro, with a width of 7 nautical miles. The geographical continuance of Andros is Tinos, which is separated by a small passing roughly 1 nautical mile named "Steno". The length of the coastline of Andros is 117Km. Gavrio and northeast of the island: greenery and many farming villages (Fellos, Makrontantalos, Gides). Mountainous in places.
TELEPHONE PREFIX: 22820
MAIN TOWNS: Port of Gavrio, the northwest end of the island. Heading south to towards Andros town (the island's capital) on the peninsula of Hora, you pass Batsi with its' beautiful beach, Aprovatou then Paleopoli (the old capital). At Stavropeda, the crossroads (stavro = cross and peda = roads), head left towards Andros town, or right towards Korthi and far right towards the beautiful beach of Halkolimnionas.
PLACES OF INTEREST: Just outside Gavrio, the Tower of Agios Petros, a cylindrical stone-built tower from the Hellenistic period, salvaged at the height of 20m. What is used for is unknown to archaeologists but it may have possibly been used as a viewing point and possibly participated as a signalling system ("friktoria").