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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.
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.