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Thassos, the northernmost Greek island, is known as the "emerald isle" for the pine forests that sweep down to a coastline of unusually clear, bright water. A short car-ferry from Kavala and Keramoti on the mainland makes it among the most accessible islands in Greece and a firm favourite for family and road-trip holidays. Its signature beach is Saliara, or Marble Beach, where white marble pebbles wash down from the island's quarries to turn the sea a luminous turquoise; nearby Giola is a natural rock lagoon carved into the cliffs. The long soft sweep of Golden Beach (Chrissi Ammoudia) is the family flagship, while Aliki pairs swimming with the columns of an ancient marble quarry and Paradise (Makryammos) offers organised golden sand. A coastal ring road makes the whole island, and its fifty-plus beaches, easy to tour by car.