Spinalonga is ready to welcome guests who will choose to be in Crete for their holidayswhich maintains steadily, even during the years of the pandemic, the intense interest of tourists, whether they are foreign or Greek visitors from the rest of the country or from Crete.
«The interest in the last decade is very intense and this is reflected in the number of visitorsSays the APE-MPE Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Agios Nikolaos, Haris Alexakishe added that even in 2020, when pandemic measures were tight and tourism was limited to a very short period of time, from July to August Spinalonga had managed to have a fairly dynamic flow of visitors.
«In 2020, from July until the end of August, the visitors to the former Island of Lepers, had reached 40 thousand peopleNotes Mr. Alexakis and adds that the goal this year is to get traffic to Spinalonga to reach pre-pandemic levels.
«In the summer of 2019, the number of visitors to Spinalonga exceeded 300 thousand. If everything goes as we expect, we are ready to reach these numbers or even bigger this year“, Said the deputy mayor of Agios Nikolaos, who added that the flow of visitors has already begun to thicken not only in Spinalonga, but in the region as a whole.
“The importance of this monument, however, and how it manifests itself as interest, is reflected in the repeated visits of locals“Explained Mr. Alexakis, who added that the history of the island and the stay there, for years of the Hansenites, seems to still move the visitors who know, but also the tourists who are informed about the role played by the island, for as long as there was “The Island of the Minutes”.
«This piece of history makes Spinalonga a unique monument that moves deeply. Based on this, the Ministry of Culture has been trying for years to include it in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, a request that we hope will proceedAdds Mr. Alexakis.
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