Mykonos – General
Mykonos is a legend, in more ways than one. The transformation of a dry, knotty, granitic island of dour sailors and fisherfolk into the plush Mykonos of today is the stuff of legend. Nobody [...]
Mykonos – Mykonos Chora
Chora’s labyrinth of tiny streets, deliberately tortuous so as to break the wind, seems confusing at first encounter. The plan, however, is not complicated: the main thoroughfare of the old part [...]
Mykonos – Around the island – South (Angelika and Lino)
South (Angelika and Lino) In 1991, the largest Mycenaean tholos tomb in the Cyclades was found on the hill of Angelika about 1.5km south of Chora. (120m after the Ornos junction of the ring-road [...]
Mykonos – Around the island – N (Cape Armenistis) and E (Ftelia, Palaiokastro, ano Mera and Kalafati)
North (Cape Armenistis) and East (Ftelia, Palaiokastro, Ano Mera and Kalafati) (Chora = 0.0km for distances in text) North from the ‘Old’ Ferry Port, the main road follows the shoreline and [...]
Mykonos – Mykonos Chora – The tria Pigadia area
The Tria Pigadia area Inland to the east of Kato Myli, at the southernmost point of the main thoroughfare is the church of Aghios Giorgios: the interior is divided by arches springing from a [...]
Mykonos – Mykonos Chora – Aghia Anna and the archaeological Museum
Aghia Anna and the Archaeological Museum At the eastern end of the promenade is the small plateia, (now the main taxi rank) named after Mando Mavrogenous (1796–1840), whose bust stands at its [...]
Mykonos – Mykonos Chora – From the promenade to Kato Myli and Little Venice
From the promenade to Kato Myli and Little Venice The churches of Chora mostly date from the 17th and 18th centuries and although they have plain and undecorated walls, they are not without [...]
Mykonos – Mykonos Chora – the Kastro
We begin in the ‘Kastro’ area, at the northwestern point of the town. The acropolis of Ancient Mykonos was a meagre hill—the area behind today’s town hall—project from the centre of the west [...]
Mykonos – history
Underneath Mykonos, according to myth, lie buried the last of the giants who had contested the Olympian gods and were finally destroyed by the rocks hurled by Hercules: the landscape is indeed [...]