Evdilos

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The port of Evdilos, where ferries to Athens and Samos regularly stop.

Evdilos is a town and municipality in the northern part of Icaria Island, 40 km northwest of Agios Kirykos in Samos Prefecture in the eastern Aegean Sea in Greece. Its name means visible and freely rendered open horizon.

It is a new seaside settlement built after 1830 when piracy was completely stamped out on the island. Evdilos was the first capital of the island. Today it is the second port and the center of northern, central, and western Ikaria. Together with other settlements, it forms the Municipality of Evdilos and has 2,831 permanent inhabitants, as of the 2001 census. The municipality has a land area of 78.790 km², and is the second-largest of the three on Icaria both in population and land area. It shares the island of Icaria with the municipalities of Agios Kirykos and Raches.

The picturesque small port and the pier with the old mansions and narrow roads, the paved steps, and the traditional and modern houses form an architecturally interesting village. Evdilos may be the most architecturally traditional settlement on Ikaria. There is a fine beach located just outside of Evdilos.