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VirtualGreece.net is the ideal web site for anyone wishing to go on a Greek island holiday, you can browse the Greek islands using our interactive map of lesvos. Virtual Greece covers eleven Greek island holiday destinations each with an intearactive map of Greece featuring Corfu, Crete, Kefalonia, Kos, Leros, Lesvos, Patmos, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini and Zante. lesvos is one of the most popular for Greek island holiday with British tourists so is therefore an ideal place for people visiting Greece for the first time or those wanting a home from home atmosphere. It is however still possible using our map of leros to find many places still untouched by mass tourism and the accompanying crowds. The Greek island holiday destination of lesvos has something to offer everyone from the lively nightlife of Kos to excellent sandy beaches and rugged mountains. For the more adventurous use our map of lesvos to explore the busy capital rich in Venetian architecture and legacies of British rule and inland you will find sleepy hamlets unchanged by the passage of time.

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lesvos Greece and guide greek island is the one of the top tourist attractions in Greece. The most notable sight on lesvos Greece in guide greek island is probably this small fishing harbour lies to the northern end of the town and is made up of traditional fishing boats and pleasure craft. There is a larger port lesvos Greece from where the commercial fishing vessels unload their catch and passenger ferries depart to other islands.The harbour and quayside is a busy part of the town with some excellent restaurants overlooking the hills rising up the other side lesvos Greece and in guide greek island. On certain days, fisherman sell freshly caught fish from quayside stalls.

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On Lesvos Greek island the peaceful beach resort of Anaxos attracts its prospective guests by being just that: peaceful. On Lesvos Greek island there is a wonderful beach on which to relax and not a hint of a nightclub in sight. It is a small village that contains only a handful of tavernas in which the local cuisine is amongst the finest on the island. An island paradise, where you really can, escape from it all.

On Lesvos Greek island 1500 hectares of petrified plant life comes under the Protected Monuments of Nature in the Petrified Forest.

Tourists flock to the natural monuments on Lesvos Greek island that are simply prehistoric fossils of trees from the Caenophytic era. They are formed when the pyroclastic clouds of erupting volcanoes in the region, cover the vegetation in volcanic ash. Silicon dioxide from the lava mixes with the ash and petrification then begins.

Lesvos is a beautiful, fertile island situated in the north Aegean Sea, rich in history and character. Until recently this large island was virtually untouched as a tourist destination to all but the Greeks themselves. The main industry is olive production so the island is littered with millions of olive trees and lots of small villages all harvesting the olives and shipping them from the capital Mytiline, oblivious to the tourists. An excellent place to explore there are many Byzantine castles, award winning beaches, excellent seafood restaurants and traditional little villages. Lesvos is truly a place to discover the real Greece.

Virtual Greece is packed full of iPIX Virtual Tours and information on the Greek islands, use our Greek islands map or the drop down menus to find your way around. Explore at your leisure and we hope you find the right Greek islands for your holiday in Greece.

Explore our selection of Greek islands - Corfu, Crete, Kefalonia, Kos, Leros, Lesvos, Patmos, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini and Zante

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