Kea, resembling a water drop, stands lofty in front of the large sea current Cavo Doro and is considered the natural bridge of communication of the mainland of Greece with the Cyclades, delimiting at the same time the Archipelago from the Southern Eubean gulf.
With a perimeter of roughly 85 kilometres and a total surface of 131 square kilometres, Kea is one of the biggest Cycladic islands. Furthermore, Kea is the most western cycladic island and the nearest to Attica. Its harbour abstains only 40 miles from Piraeus and 16 miles from Lavrion.
The island is mountainous with medium altitude (285m), the tallest peak being Profitis Ilias (568m) and in-between the mountain ranges narrow valleys take shape.
The coasts shape small bights and capes as well as sea caverns that are half or wholly under the surface of the sea. The big gulf of Saint Nikolaos, one from the biggest natural harbours of the Mediterranean, is situated at the north-west while a little more to the east the gulf of Otzia that is open to the north is found. In the south-west, where mountains reach more smoothly to the sea, is located the gulf Koundouros.
The bights of Poles and Spathi in the east and Pisses in the west are smaller.

Kea is a unique presence in the passage of centuries and constitutes a crossroad of cultures in the Aegean. Visitors are impressed with the traditional architecture and the natural landscape, the rare monuments of all eras and the combination of the mountainous bas-relief, with the spotless coasts, the full of trees mountainsides in the inner island and the abundant water sources.
For the walkers Kea is equal to paradise. Paths, of a total length of 36 kilometres, 65% of which are paved, await and long to reveal the secret charms of Kea. Most lead to isolated coasts.

The paths that we are going to tour, were part of road network that connected the cities-states between them. Along all the paths, wooden signs can be found that state the destination. Since 1996 the Municipality of Kea and the Prefectoral Self-government of Cyclades have developed a total of actions for the emergence of the paths, the mapping of which was made by Tassos Anastasiou.