My seven-day stay on Skopelos had passed blissfully free of reminders of Meryl Streep, Abba, or Mamma Mia! – the saccharine musical shot here almost a decade ago. But then our coach driver, who was ...
Seventeen years ago, Hollywood plucked a tiny Greek island from obscurity and put it on the map. But it hasn’t been affected ...
Skopelos, in Greece’s Northern Sporades islands, is famous for being where the seminal 2008 Abba musical Mamma Mia! starring Meryl Streep, Julie Walters, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth was filmed. But ...
From a distance, everything looks just as it should. The teeny, white-washed Agios Ioannis chapel is perched 202 steps up a winding path on top of a rocky outcrop that juts into the sea. It appears ...
Skopelos is the largest island in the Sporades, an hour’s ferry-ride from neighbouring Skiathos which has the only airport of the three. The first recorded mentions of the island were in 1600 BC, when ...
For some authentic Skopelitan shopping, the Rodios pottery workshop and store in Skopelos Town is the place to to buy the island’s patented black pottery. Since 1900, four generations of the Rodios ...
Skopelos is the filming location of 2008’s Mamma Mia! (Picture: Sophie Williams) Seventeen years ago, Hollywood plucked a tiny Greek island from obscurity and put it on the map. But it hasn’t been ...
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