Since 1970, Hydra has been organized “touristically”, acquiring very good infrastructure. Many mansions were renovated and turned into traditional hotels, of high standard, preserving their historical form, while at the same time paying special attention to detail.
The same happened with many simple houses that were converted into cozy guesthouses, in which the visitor feels as if he were at home.
Little by little, Hydra turned into a nearby destination, not only for romantic holidays, but also a place for business meetings, conferences and seminars, combining work with fun and holidays.
Long before the end of the last century, the Nautical Club of Hydra began to organize twice a year, in autumn and spring, world-class sailing races, which result in the island being flooded with hundreds of sailors and yachts with colorful sails.
For the last two years, Hydra has hosted distinguished Greek and foreign athletes, as well as those who want to participate in a two-day sports event with mountain running races, which offers athletes and spectators a unique experience of intensity and a lot of action
For many years, Greeks and foreigners have discovered in Hydra, the ideal romantic destination to celebrate their weddings, since the people of Hydra have taken care to offer all the necessary services for the preparation of the ceremony.
Hydra continued to be a meeting place for artists and to “produce” its own painters and writers, such as Panagiotis Tetsis, who is the greatest living painter of modern Greece, who was born and lives here.
Apart from the very important Museums of Hydra, in which its glorious history is unfolded and revived, in the recent past the School of Fine Arts was established which encourages young artists, while throughout time Greeks and foreigners continue to produce their work in “traditional style”.
In 1983, Dakis Ioannou founded DESTE, a cultural institution for contemporary art, which since 2009 has housed projects by various young artists.
From then until today, the Hydra people have made sure that their island preserves all its elements from its glorious past. The Mansions of the island, buildings over 200 years old, many of which have become Museums, the Bastions with cannons, which protected the settlement of Hydra, the Historical Archive-Museum of Hydra, which exhibits important museum relics, archival material and a library with valuable publications, the Ecclesiastical and Byzantine Museum of Hydra in which vestments, relics, tributes and images mainly from the 18th century are exhibited, alongside the romantic aura radiated by today’s Hydra, submits visitors to come again and again to Hydra.
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