Informations about Lemnos
Geographical & Historical Outiline
Lemnos lies south-west of Lesvos and south of Samothrace.
It has a strongly indented coastline with two deep bays, Moudros and Pournias, which almost divide the island in the middle.
It has an area of 476 square kilometers and 259 kilometers of coastline.
It is a flat island, with a low hill, Skopia at the north-west (430 meters).
Administratively, it forms, together with Agios Efstratios, the province of Lemnos within the prefecture of Lesvos.
As archaeological excavation has shown, the island was inhabited from the Neolithic period.
It was called Aethalia and the most important city was Hephaesteia, which was named after the god Hephaestus, who was worshipped here.
It flourished in the Bronze Age.
During the Persian Wars it was conquered by the Persians, and afterwards became a member of the Athenian Confederacy, as conquered by the Macedonians and finally by the Romans.
The island was of great strategic importance during Byzantine times, because of its position on the entrance to the Vosporos.
In AD 267 it was destroyed by the Goths, and much later was plundered by pirates, who were eventually expelled from the area by the Byzantine fleet in AD 924.
During the Venetian occupation it prospered greatly.
After the Venetians, it was captured by the Turks (1458).
The people of Lemnos fought in their own ships during the Greek War of Independence of 1821.
The island was liberated in 1912.
Informations about Lemnos
HOW TO GET THERE
BY AIRPLANE : Lemnos is daily connected by airplane with Athens, Thessaloniki and Lesvos.
BY FERRY BOAT : Lemnos is connected by ferry boat with Piraeus port, Lavrio, and Agios Efstratios, Kavala, Lesvos, Chios and Thessaloniki.
USEFUL PHONE NUMBERS
- “Eleftherios Venizelos”
Athens International Airport
Tel: + 30 210 3530000
- “Ifestos” Airport of Lemnos
Tel: + 30 22540 29400
- Port Authority of Myrina Lemnos
Tel: + 30 22540 22225
- Port Station of Moudros Lemnos
Tel: + 30 22540 71240
- Buses Station KTEL
Myrina
Tel: + 30 22540 22464
- Taxi Station
Myrina
Tel: + 30 22540 23820
- Hospital of Myrina Lemnos
Tel: + 30 22543 50400
limnoshospital.gr
- Municipal Community of Atsiki
Tel: + 30 22543 50600
- Municipal Community of Moudros
Tel: + 30 22543 50700
- Municipal Community of Nea Koutali
Tel: + 30 22543 50500
- Municipality of Lemnos
Ilia Iliou Square, Myrina
Tel: + 30 22543 50015
Tel: + 30 22543 50000
limnos.gov.gr
- Archaeological Museum of Lemnos
Navarchou Kountourioti Str., Myrina
Tel: + 30 22540 22990
- Folklore Museum of Portianos
Tel: + 30 22540 51785
- Gallery of Contemporary Balkan Art
Kontias
Tel: + 30 22540 51425
- Museum of Maritime Tradition
& Sponge Fishing
Nea Koutali
Tel: + 30 22540 92383
spongefishing-museum.gr/en
