Trizonia: The Unknown Greek Island Onassis Almost Bought

A Greek kaiki boat astatine Trizonia Island. Without cars and motorcycles, you volition question backmost successful clip connected the tiny and little-known Greek land of Trizonia, which Onassis erstwhile wanted to bargain – but the residents rejected his offer! Credit: Greek Reporter

Trizonia – a tiny land located successful the Corinthian Gulf – was erstwhile connected the wish-list of Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis.

Even today, travelers to Greece tin inactive find galore destinations which virtually are hidden treasures that clasp their astir unspoiled beauty.

As hard to judge arsenic it whitethorn be, due to the fact that Greece has specified a agelong coastline, arsenic good arsenic astir innumerable islands, determination inactive are a wealthiness of locations which would marque 1 deliberation that these places are disconnected the map.

One specified land without a uncertainty is Trizonia, located conscionable 400 meters (1,312 feet) disconnected the southwestern seashore of the portion of Fokida.

The land is said to person been named for the dependable of its cicadas, which you tin ever perceive singing distant portion you are there.

This is the famed land which, aft visiting it successful the 1960’s, Aristotle Onassis attempted to bargain — lock, banal and tube — from the section radical who lived determination by offering them an tremendous lump sum of money.

Trizonia Island locals defied Onassis

The locals refused, famously saying that this circumstantial paradise was not for sale. Minas, a section restaurateur, shared with the Greek Reporter that occasionally the thought does transverse his mind, however, that “it would person been bully if Onassis had bought it.”

The islanders’ refusal is what led Onassis aboriginal to acquisition the land of Skorpios successful the Ionian Sea, which helium made into his ain idiosyncratic Eden.

The land of Trizonia has been called by galore a occurrence of nature. While staying connected the island, which is conscionable 2.4 quadrate kilometers, oregon hardly 1 quadrate mile, travelers tin hide everything from the extracurricular world, including cars, motorbikes, sound — and stress.

Trizonia is besides an land plot of sorts, boasting almond, prickly pear, eucalyptus, holly, plum, and olive trees, arsenic good arsenic conifer and cedar trees throughout.

There are excessively galore delights connected this land to list. First of all, everyone gets astir connected bicycles, making the situation highly quiescent and peaceful.

The oversea surrounding it is precise calm, with heavy bluish crystal-clear waters, astir demanding that you instrumentality a vessel thrust of immoderate benignant to research its shores.

On apical of these attractions, land residents are precise welcoming to tourists — contempt the acold enarthrosis they erstwhile gave to Onassis!

The restaurateur Minas told the Greek Reporter wherefore helium has chosen to unrecorded his beingness connected Trizonia. “I was calved and raised here, my begetter is from here, and the past 2 years helium has been surviving present permanently.

“I don’t deliberation determination is simply a crushed for maine to unrecorded successful Athens. I can’t unrecorded there, determination is excessively overmuch noise. I similar my bid and quiet,” helium explains, portion adding that “in the summertime determination are astatine slightest 600-1000 radical connected the island, we person a marina for 650 boats, we person 4 restaurants that service plentifulness of caller food and 2 cafes. I ain the island’s aft bar.”

The land lone has 40-50 residents successful the winter. However, Minas maintains that “in the wintertime it’s a spot difficult, it gets a spot cold, but if you person bully company, bully vino and bully food, everything is fine.”

With a natural, unspoiled scenery that amazes visitors, its lacework of interconnected, continuous beaches, and sapphire waters, Trizonia and its singing cicadas beckon to the discerning visitant who needs a interruption from the stresses of the modern world.