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Leros Island Greece
About the Greek island of Leros
ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Leros
ISLAND GROUP: Dodecanese Islands
POPULATION: About 8,500
GEOGRAPHY: The island is savagely indented by the sea. Leros is about 15 km long and between 11 and 2 km wide.
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS: Faded, 1930's Italianesque buildings, palm trees, fencing and barbed wire, green beehives, little agriculture. The island and islanders have not been overwhelmed by tourism. Leros is more a holiday resort of the cognoscenti than the mob but development is taking place at the seaside villages of Alinda and Xerokampos.
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TELEPHONE PREFIX: 22470
MAIN TOWNS: The main port of Lakki is a horribly magnificent, if faded and crumbling concrete monument of the Mussolini inspired dream of a Mediterranean Empire and is not the capital town of the island in spite of its sprawl. Platanos Village 3.5 km from Lakki is the inland captial built on and over the crest of a ridge. Ayia Marina, 4.5km from Lakki, is the island's second port and the original harbour for the island. Other towns and villages include Pantelli (4.5), Vromolithos (2), Alinda (7), Xerokampos (4.5), Gourna (10) and Partheni (12), all km from Lakki Port.
AIRPORT: From Lorraine Chaplin house owner on Leros "Leros does have an airport but it is not international. FLIGHTS ARRIVE DAILY FROM ATHENS, with two on Wednesdays, and on Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays there are flights to Kos, Rhodes and another GREEK island. Only Olympic Airlines fly to this tiny airport."
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