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The Skyrian horse (Equus Cabalus Skyriano) is a special Greek horse race. Its roots reach in antiquity , where it was the dominant race all over the Greek area . It is likely to have common roots with the Horse of Pindos . It is considered a descendant of the horses of Achilles , who [...]

The period of Carnival precedes Lent. The date of the movable feast of Easter each year is the one that determines the dates of the start and finish of feasts and rites which delimit these two periods. The Carnival, unlike Lent, is a time of joyous moral freedom or relaxation, during which the rules of [...]

George Theotokas writes : "Skyros saved me . She was the one that I needed it more than anything else, the intense whipping of the soul .... I'll never forget the feeling of absolute freedom that gave me this island , the parched and lit up, gave me so much intense when I went and [...]

Springs The existence of springs in Skyros is absolutely intertwined with the traditions. The spring "Nyfi" with its thermal water that refreshes and "Anavalsa" the vivifying source of Chora, with its pond, "give life" to Skyros. Stone Ships Skyros is surrounded by 11 islets or "stone ships". The Skyropoula is the largest islet, mountainous and [...]

Skyros was previously called Pelasgia or Dolopia or Isle of magnets and was originally inhabited by Carians and Pelasgians Dolopes. The current name is attributed to either the Phoenicians or the word skirron (= plaster). The island is connected with Achilles which his mother Thetis had hidden there, in the Court of King Licomedes, in [...]

During the early Byzantine period the island did not flourish, but during the middle Byzantine period the island benefited from the economic prosperity of the southern provinces of Greece and organized the diocese, which was incorporated into the jurisdiction of the metropolitan of Athens under the "regular» (Notitial Episcopatuum) era of the Komnenos and Palaiologos. [...]