Ikaria is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, 10 miles southwest of the island of Samos, next to Turkey. According to tradition, it derives its name from Icarus in Greek mythology, who was believed ...

It was on a visit to Ikaria, the island where Icarus supposedly fell into the sea ... Below me on a small outcrop, I could see the small Orthodox Greek chapel of Agios Giorgiou, and below that ...

Greek mythology says Icarus flew too close to the sun and plummeted into the ocean near this ironically wing-shaped island. A land of rivers, gorges, peaks, and high forests, it lures nature buffs ...