Spetses Tours

Spetses is an island of Greece, first occupied around 8000 BC. It is sometimes included as one of the Saronic Islands. In the first half ot the 1800's, the island played a large role in the Greek War of Independence from the Turks. The town of Spetses is the only large settlement on the island. In the 1960s and 1970s, the island attracted a number wealthy Greek vacationers from Athens and elsewhere, owning villas or living on large yachts in the port. Since package tours were actively discouraged by the island as of the early 1990s, the island's holiday clientele remains more upmarket and largely Greek.