The islet of Gavdos located opposite Sfakia, Crete, is the southern-most border of Greece and Europe.

According to Callimachus, this is the ancient isle of Ogygia where, as Homer claims in “Odyssey”, the nymph Calypso lived. You can actually see on your own the nymph’s “palace” near a cave, if you ask it from a local.

Gavdos, apart from its mythological glamour, was also used as a place of exile “hosting” famous Greek fighters, such as Aris Velouchiotis, Markos Vafiadis, Partsalidis and many others and the houses in which they lived still remain.

Visitors can also see the tombs found in Lavraka Bay, in northwest of Gavdos, which are dated back to the Minoan age, even though edifices of the same period have not been found.

A new video by Dimitris Koulelis on Vimeo captures the beauty of the southernmost island of Greece and Europe.