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1 Sailings Weekly
8 h 20 minPatmos - Chios ferry route details
Chios ferry terminal is 120 km northwest of Patmos. This corresponds to a distance of 65 nautical miles.
| Ferry route: | Patmos - Chios |
| Port of departure: |  Patmos |
| Destination port: | Chios |
| Departures: | 1 times a week |
| Ferry companies: | Hellenic Seaways |
Chios
The East Aegean island is with 845 km² comparable in size to Berlin. There live a good 3.6 million, here plenty of 50,000 inhabitants. On Chios you will find secluded beaches, romantic landscapes and small historic villages. Connoisseurs of the island say that Chios is one of the last undiscovered jewels in the entire Aegean. Worth seeing are the excavations of Emporio, the painted village of Pyrgi with its architecture unique in all of Greece, and the ghost village of Anavatos from the Byzantine period. Chios town with its old town and historic castle is also the island's center as an airport and ferry port.
The ferry port on the island of Chios offers connections to the other Greek islands of Fournoi, Patmos, Ikaria, Leros, Mykonos, Lesbos, Samos, Psara, Syros, Oinousses and Limnos, as well as to the ports of Thessaloniki, Piraeus and Kavala on the Greek mainland. A total of 17 routes are offered here several times a day by the shipping companies Turyol and Hellenic Seaways.
Patmos
Patmos - the Jerusalem of the Aegean, the place where John wrote down the Revelation, shines with mythological and Christian magic. Originally, Zeus is said to have given the island to his daughter Artemis. Beautiful beaches next to picturesque cliffs await you, green hills with olive trees, ancient sites and monuments. A visit to the monastery of St. John is a must, here you can also visit the cave where John had his visions. Besides this monastery, the island has many other sites of religious life. Often, the ancient and the Christian are right next to each other, like the ruins of the temple of Apollo next to the church of St. Constantine in Chora.
The ferry port on the island of Patmos offers connections to the other Greek islands of Agathonisi, Lesbos, Samos, Karpathos, Nisyros, Kalymnos, Kos, Ikaria, Lipsi, Chios, Rhodes, Fournoi, Syros, Astypalea, Tilos, Symi, Arki, Kasos, Leros, Kastelorizo and Limnos, as well as to the ports of Piraeus and Kavala on the Greek mainland. A total of 25 routes are offered here several times a day by the shipping companies Blue Star Ferries, Dodekanisos Seaways and Hellenic Seaways.
