Karpathos, also Carpathos, is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. Together with the neighboring smaller Saria Island it forms the municipality of Karpathos, which is part of the regional unit Karpathos-Kasos. Because of its remote location, Karpathos has preserved many peculiarities of dress, customs and dialect, the last resembling those of Crete and Cyprus. The island has also been called Carpathus in Latin and Scarpanto in Italian.
View of the port of Pigadia
The community of Olympos
Remains of the early Christian basilica of St Fotini, Pigadia
Diafáni village.
The Dodecanese are a group of 15 larger and 150 smaller Greek islands in the southeastern Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, off the coast of Turkey's Anatolia, of which 26 are inhabited. This island group generally defines the eastern limit of the Sea of Crete. They belong to the wider Southern Sporades island group.
Satellite image from NASA Visible Earth
The Doric temple of Athena Lindia, Lindos
Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, Patmos