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Information about Astypalea The island is in the shape of a butterfly and this is also called "the butterfly of the Aegean". Chora, the capital of the island, is completed perfectly with Skala, the port below, from where the few tourists come who decide to enjoy a holiday here. Geographically Astypalea belongs to the Dodecanese but very often it is inserted among the Cyclades, as there are many characteristics that unite it to the islands of this archipelago.

Information about Symi Simi, called Sime in antiquity, is a Greek island of the Aegean Sea in the Dodecanese archipelago, located 41 km north of the coast of the island of Rhodes, surface of 58.1 km². It is located near the Turkish coasts of the Re?adiye peninsula in the Mu?la Province. From an administrative point of view, it is a municipality on the outskirts of the Southern Aegean (peripheral unit of Rhodes). The island has over three hundred monasteries and churches. The most important Churches are: Prophet Elias, St. John of Tsagkrias, St. Procopius, Madonna Myrtariotissa, Roukouniotis, Santa Marina and the Holy Monastery of Panormitis. Worth noting is the Kokkimidi Abbey, a Byzantine monastery renovated in 1697, the Perivioti Abbey and the War Cross Monastery.