Example sentences for: spinalónga

How can you use “spinalónga” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You can also head to Spinalónga from here — a much shorter trip than from Ágios Nikólaos because the island lies just offshore.

  • Or you can head even further north on the main island to the tiny coastal resort of Pláka and take a rowboat ferry to Spinalónga.

  • Here, on a small rocky sub-islet are the remains of the Venetian stronghold of Spinalónga, built in 1579 to protect the entrance to this sheltered bay.

  • Spinalónga Island has been settled since ancient times.

  • At the beginning of the 20th century, the Cretan council decided to open a leper colony on the island; whether this was an attempt to force the Turks to leave is open to debate but the disease was rampant on the main island and Spinalónga’s position — offshore yet not too remote — was considered ideal for study of the disease and a quarantine for its sufferers.


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