Welcome to Fourni Islands
The Fourni archipelago is one of Greece’s great unknown island gems. Its low-lying vegetation clings to gracefully rounded hills that overlap, forming intricate bays of sandy beaches and little ports. This former pirates’ lair is especially beautiful at dusk, when the setting sun turns the terrain shades of pink, violet and black.
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A clue to the area’s swashbuckling past can be found in the name of the archipelago’s capital, Fourni Korseon. The Corsairs were French privateers with a reputation for audacity, and their name became applied generically to all pirates and rogues then roaming the eastern Aegean.
Nowadays, Fourni Korseon offers most of the accommodation and services, plus several beaches. Other settlements include little Hrysomilia and Kamari to the north, plus another fishing hamlet on the islet of Thymena. In the south of the main island, the monastery of Agios Ioannis Prodromos stands serene over the far horizon.
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