7Koufonisia (Cyclades)

There are very few islands in Greece (and in the whole of the Mediterranean), that can compete with it on all fronts. Koufonissi is as beautiful and pure as the Aegean. Its sea is a constant blue presence that plays with skill and joy, drawing soft beaches of fine sand, tickling the white houses of the marina, creating shimmering blue coves, lagoons that look like pools, caves of porous rock that kiss the transparent water like we’ve never seen before.

Kato Koufonissi is suspended on a delicate, almost invisible thread seemingly ready to be broken. The port is the only village of the island, and it is small. In typical Cycladic style, you can expect: lime huts, and flowered blue balconies. But that’s not all. Koufonissi has something special because its simplicity is almost abstract from time and place. Take a beach, some fishing boats, add a few houses in the background and the sea – a colour of a deeper turquoise you can barely imagine.

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