After Crete, Euboea is the second largest of the Greek islands and has all the beauty and charm a traveller could want. What's more, it still preserves its typical character, which once led a Greek poet to describe Euboea as "Greece's rich jewel box". Enchanting mountainscapes with peaks of up to 1,800 meters, mountain villages and monasteries alternate with fertile valleys and plateaux, dense woodland and rugged limestone landscapes. Ever present is the sea, deep blue and emerald green, steep cliffs and wide sandy or pebbly beaches.