7 wonders of Greece for 2026

Parthenon of Shipwrecks, Alonissos

Home to the Mediterranean’s first underwater museum, Alonissos is one of the remotest islands of the Sporades island chain, which includes Mamma Mia island, Skopelos and party-loving Skiathos. Greece’s so-called ‘Parthenon of shipwrecks’ is a merchant vessel that sank off this coastline with several thousand wine amphorae on board sometime in the fifth century. It lies some 20 metres down, beneath glass-clear waters in Alonissos’ 2,260 sq km…