Agkistri Island

Agkistri is a small island in the Saronikos Gulf of Greece, four miles south-west of the island of Aegina. The island has a daily ferry service to the port of Piraeus on the mainland.

Agkistri is a small island in the Saronikos Gulf of Greece, popular with Athenian yachtsmen as a weekend destination. Also Angistri is used as a mooring place for yachts sailing to or from the Corinth Canal.

The island has two small harbors: Agkistri on the north-west side and Skala on the east side of the island. The Skala is a ferry harbor and is not suitable for yachts. On the southwest end of the island, opposite Dhorus Island, there are a number of small attractive anchorages that provide good shelter from north-east winds. On the south-east side of the island there are several anchorages sheltered from the west and north-west winds.

On Agkistri many sandy and pebbly beaches, both wild and with all the amenities.

In the ancient texts of Pliny and other ancient historians such as Thucydides and Diodorus, Agistri was called Kekrifalia, which means "richly decorated head". Although no archaeological excavations have been done on the west coast of the island, it is known that ancient relics of prehistoric settlements are submerged in the sea. There is the tomb of Armatoulos Mitromara (1772), an eagle-eyed supporter who fled and died on the island on February 15, 1772. It was then that the Turks killed all his supporters and sold the women into slavery, with the exception of his wife, who was captured.