Aegina is a lovely place, with a relaxed and unpretentious main town. For lovers of ruins, its main attractions are the complex and well-presented Bronze Age-to-Byzantine city at Kolonna, the finely-preserved Classical Temple of Aphaia, and a veritable treasury of Byzantine churches at Palaiochóra. For the gastronome it offers delicious pistachio nuts, which thrive in the island’s mild climate and clay soil.
Chapter from Blue Guide Greece the Aegean Islands: what to see, where to stay and eat, history, archaeology, art, culture, leisure. With superb, award-winning maps. Written and edited by a team of three experts: historian, art historian and archaeologist, two of whom lead cultural tours in Greece. "Blue Guides still hold the cultural high ground" Sunday Times.
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