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Samos Description
Area of island: 476 sq. km/184 sq. mi

Altitude: 1,440m/4,725ft

Chief town: Sámos

Airfield 5 km/3 mi southwest of Sámos. Flights from Athens twice daily; also to Chios, Lésbos and Mykonos.

Regular services from Athens (Piraeus) and Rhodes, several times weekly (cars carried). Ferry service to Kusadasa (Turkey).

The island of Sámos (Turkish Sisam) is a green, well wooded island which has only recently become a target for mass tourism, with the site of one of the most important sanctuaries and cultural centers of the ancient world, the Heraion.

Geographically an outpost of Asia Minor, from which it is separated by a strait only 1.9 km/1.25 mi wide, it rises in the center to 1,140m/3,740ft in Mt
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Hobbies & Activities category: Region with significant interests
Address
Samos Tourist Office
Town Hall
Odos Martious 25
83100 Sámos
Greece
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