
Before my book group read <<Το Νησί της Μαρίας>> (“Maria’s Island” by Victoria Hislop), I knew nothing of the history of Spinalonga or “the island of the lepers”.
Located just off the coast of Crete, Spinalonga was home to hundreds of lepers from 1903 to 1957 (Φεσσά, para. 6).
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