The island that belonged to Onassis and never gained the fame of Scorpios (video)
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
The friend of our site Marinos Charalampopoulos and Travel Inspiration always take us to beautiful places, this time on the islet of Sparti in the Ionian Sea.
Sparti belongs to the island complex of the Televoids located between Lefkada and Etoloakarnania and which took its name from the ancient pirate tribe Televoes that had Meganisi as their base.
Together with twenty-three more islands, which surround Lefkada, they are the so-called Princes' Islands of Greece. It is a green uninhabited island with arable land and low altitude, just seven meters above sea level and is located just opposite the Perigiali beach of Lefkada.
During the years of Turkish rule, it belonged to a French family, while in 1963 it was bought together with Scorpios by Aristotle Onassis. After the completion of the works of Scorpios, with his fame reaching the ends of the earth, Onassis began works on Sparti, in order to create a copy of Scorpios for his son Alexandros.
However, the work stopped suddenly in January 1973, when the small amphibious aircraft Piaggio 136, operated by 25-year-old Alexandros, crashed, immediately after taking off from the Hellinikon airport, and he died tragically, leaving his last breath in the KAT. due to the severe craniocerebral injury he suffered.
Several years later, it passed into the possession of the Russian tycoon "king of potash" Dimitri Rimbolovlev, wanting to offer it as a gift to his 24-year-old daughter Ekaterina and 12-year-old Anna.
The goal of the family is to complete the work on this island when the work in Scorpios is done, which is transformed into a luxury resort for the super-wealthy, is completed. And if the reconstruction of Sparti was overshadowed for the first time by the "curse" of Onassis, the future this time seems different, since history is written only once.
