Patmos is the northernmost island of the Dodecanese. It lies between the Greek islands of Ikaria and Leros and has an area of 34 km2, a total coastline of 63 kilometers, and around 2,700 permanent residents. Only in 1948 did the island reach Greece. Patmos is located 163 nautical miles from Piraeus and has no airport of its own. Ferries to Rhodes leave from the port of Skala.
The island has many bays and sandy or pebble beaches, a rugged inland with fertile valleys. Here, people mainly live from grapes, tomatoes, and olives. But the main source of income here, too, is tourism. The island is known as a place of pilgrimage for believers from all over the world.
In the first century AD, the island was in the hands of the Romans, and they used it as a place of exile. That is how apostle John ended up there. From 95 AD, he spent two years in the cave of Apocalypse, where he had visions, which he had a disciple write down. That became the Book of Revelation, the last book of the New Testament.
