Greek island: Spinalonga will upgrade infrastructure to protect the island

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Infrastructure for power and water supply and a biological waste treatment will be built on the Greek Island of Spinalonga.

The infrastructure, expected to be finished by the end of 2024, will facilitate the thousands of hundreds of people that visit every year and offer new potential to the guided tours, says Antonis Zervos, the Mayor of the Cretan town, Aghios Nikolaos.

Zervos said, “The infrastructure should be improved in order to protect the monument and in parallel to have the necessary quality of services according to the large number of its visitors”.

Spinalonga is a small island in the Gulf of Elounda in north-eastern Crete and was a former leper colony between 1903-1957.

It is the second most visited archaeological site of Crete after Knossos and received 500,000 visitors in 2022 with 3,500 of people visiting the island in August.

The new infrastructure will not affect the character of the island, instead support its preservation and make it more accommodating to tourists.

Source: AMNA

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