Qualla: Alonnisos https://qualla.com/alonnisos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/p/alonnisos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Alonnisos https://qualla.com/alonnisos Alonnisos: Introduction https://qualla.com/alonnisos/ Photo credit User: (WT-shared) Handrian at wts wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. An island can lose its own name. For centuries this third member of the Northern Sporades was called Liadromia, and only in 1838 was it rechristened Alonnisos, after antiquarians wrongly matched it to the ancient Halonnesus of classical texts. The Greeks of antiquity had actually known it as Icus, or Ikos, a place colonized from Knossos and noted by the historian Phanodemus. The mistake stuck. Today the 64-square-kilometer ridge of limestone, three kilometers east of Skopelos, still carries a name that belongs, properly speaking, to somewhere else.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/p/alonnisos-wp/swcp-alonnisos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Alonnisos: The Wine That Vanished https://qualla.com/alonnisos/ Photo credit Pitichinaccio, CC BY 3.0. Long before tourism, Alonnisos lived on its vineyards. Mixed farming covered the slopes, alongside almonds, figs, and olives, and the island's wine was prized enough to be exported in antiquity. That world ended in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when phylloxera...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/p/alonnisos-wp/swcp-alonnisos-the-wine-that-vanished.mp3 0:06 2 full Alonnisos: The Earthquake of 1965 https://qualla.com/alonnisos/ Photo credit No machine-readable author provided. Icarus83 assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain. For most of its history, life on Alonnisos was concentrated in the hilltop capital, a tight cluster of stone houses behind a small fortress that had once guarded against pirates and raiders. Then, in 1965, an earthquake tore through the island. The old village, Chora, was so badl...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/p/alonnisos-wp/swcp-alonnisos-the-earthquake-of-1965.mp3 0:06 3 full Alonnisos: The Old Village Reborn https://qualla.com/alonnisos/ Photo credit Maximilian Dörrbecker (Chumwa), CC BY-SA 2.5. Chora, the place locals still call simply the village and signpost as the Old Village, did not stay a ruin. Over recent decades its stone houses have been carefully restored, many of them now serving the very tourism that once seemed to threaten the island's character. Walk its n...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/p/alonnisos-wp/swcp-alonnisos-the-old-village-reborn.mp3 0:06 4 full Alonnisos: Kostis and the Seals https://qualla.com/alonnisos/ Photo credit Deyan Vasilev ( Dido3 ), CC BY-SA 3.0. The sea around Alonnisos is in unusually good ecological condition, and the island has staked its modern identity on protecting it. In 1992 the waters became the Alonnisos Marine Park, established above all to shelter the Mediterranean monk seal, Monachus monachus, one of the rar...

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