page_title: Gianysada
hierarchical_section_title: Gianysada
caption_attribution_description: English: The Dionysades. Picture taken from Agios Nikolaos. Deutsch: Die Dionysaden von Agios Nikolaos aus aufgenommen.
context_page_description: Gianysada is the southernmost island of the small Dionysades group of islands off Sitia on the northeast coast of Crete. The group also includes Dragonada, Paximada, and Paximadaki. Administratively this group comes within the Sitia municipality in Lasithi.
  This island is part of an environmentally protected area with many rare plants and animals including the falcon, Falco eleonorae, which finds sanctuary here.
  The Dionysades were once a place of worship of the ancient Greek god Dionysus. Archaeologists have found artefacts on this island group, from ancient and early Christian eras, indicating that the islands may have been inhabited in the past.
context_section_description: Gianysada (Greek: Γιανυσάδα, also Γιαννισάδα - Giannisada) is the southernmost island of the small Dionysades group of islands off Sitia on the northeast coast of Crete. The group also includes Dragonada, Paximada, and Paximadaki. Administratively this group comes within the Sitia municipality in Lasithi.
  This island is part of an environmentally protected area with many rare plants and animals including the falcon, Falco eleonorae, which finds sanctuary here.
  The Dionysades were once a place of worship of the ancient Greek god Dionysus. Archaeologists have found artefacts on this island group, from ancient and early Christian eras, indicating that the islands may have been inhabited in the past.
caption: The Dionysades group of islands
  in the distance from Sitia.
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