Spetses Town
Photo: Márton Novák / Pexels
The Verdict
A town without cars: white houses and captains' mansions round a horseshoe harbour, where everything moves on foot, by bicycle or by boat.
Why go
Spetses town is built round a horseshoe harbour with neoclassical houses along the water — the shipowners built them in the nineteenth century, when the island ran a merchant fleet and threw its weight behind the war of independence. Cars are effectively banned, so the town moves by foot, bicycle, horse and boat, and the result feels like nowhere else in the Saronic. Eat on the old harbour, walk the coastal road out to the beaches, and see the Bouboulina house, kept much as its owner left it.
Understand the place
The car-free harbour of Spetses, its neoclassical captains' houses built by the shipowners who ran the island in the nineteenth century.
Nearby
Related
More towns in Greece
Booking links
Commercial links: we may earn a commission if you book through them, at no extra cost to you.
Plan this trip
Greece Field Guide helps you decide. When you're ready to arrange it, take your saved places to an itinerary.