The church of Agia Sophia on Donoussa, is a whitewashed church with a blue dome. The church, atop a hill with a breathtaking view, is located just outside the Merssini settlement. It was built after W ...

The island’s newest church, built in 1985, Agios Georgios is a whitewashed, elongated chapel, with a pretty bell stand in the picturesque settlement of Kalotaritissa. Kalotaritissa, Donoussa 22850 515 ...

The island’s two disused windmills, that operated until the 1970’s, lie just outside Messaria settlement. The best preserved one is above Vathy Limenari. Messaria 22850 51600, 22850 29107 22850 51639 ...

Ruins of a Geometric period settlement can be seen in the promontory east of the Vathy Limenari cove, built on the remains of an older, Bronze Age settlement. Excavations, carried out between 1968 and ...

Donoussa is surrounded by many uninhabited rocky islets of particular interest. To the east lies Skoulonisi,a triangular shaped islet. Two theories exist in connection with the origins of the islet’s ...

Kalotaritissa is a small, picturesque fishing village at the foot of Mt. Papas, in Donoussa’s northeastern tip. It has a few low, stone-built houses, with a church (Agios Georgios) in the same frugal ...

The church of Panagia-Ai Giannis on Donoussa, is an uncommon architectural combination of two basilicas under a single bell, dominating a hilltop east of the settlement of Stavros.  The chapel of Pana ...

This is an idyllic spot near Merssini, with a drinkable water spring under an age-old plane tree. Old folk used to believe that the water flowed via a subterranean aquefier from the island of Ikaria, ...