Welcome! Samos Island has always been a lively, welcoming island from its earliest tourist development when it attracted the rich and the famous with its legendary beaches, leafy mountain walks and enticing night life. In spite of the more recent influx of tourists, the island has managed to retain its scenic beauty, a scattering of small, quiet churches and a number of imposing monasteries. Still picturesque, the island town is a charming place with red tiled roofs and a maze of cobbled back streets. The town is excellent for shopping. You will find impressive neo-classical buildings and be fascinated by the exhibits in both the Archaeological and Byzantine Church museums. Life in the town centers on the long sweeping quayside lined with numerous "kafenia" which pulse with life, day and night. In the evening the waterfront attracts many people for the "volta", the evening stroll .

It combines high mountains and rich vegetation with beautiful beaches and lively nightlife and of course places of cultural interest. It was an important and powerful city-state in ancient times and the birthplace of the mathematician and philosopher Pythagora as well as the astrophysicist Aristarxhos, who was the first to formulate the theory of the earth's movement. The Ionian colonists first inhabited it around the end of the 3rd millennium BC. However in the years 700-500 BC the island's economy flourished and it developed colonies as far as Egypt and became an important nautical power especially during the years under the tyranny of Polikrati. After the Persian Wars, in the year of 478 BC, the island belonged to the Dilos Alliance and the Democratic Constitution was enforced by the Athenians .