Mykonos itinerary

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   Mykonos Town (Chora) Wandering

   Mykonos Town, locally Chora, is the white-cube capital and the place every visitor returns to between beaches. The deliberately maze-like grid of Matogianni, Enoplon and Mitropoleos streets was designed in the 16th…

   Address

   Manto Mavrogenous Square, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   Mykonos Old Port, 5 min walk south via Akti Kambani; KTEL Fabrika Square 8 min walk

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   Little Venice Waterfront

   Little Venice (Alefkandra) is a 200 m line of 17th and 18th century merchants' houses built right at the water's edge in the south-west corner of Chora. The colourful balconies once let smugglers haul contraband…

   Address

   Alefkandra, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   From Old Port: 12 min walk west via the seafront

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   Mykonos Windmills (Kato Mili)

   Kato Mili is the row of seven white round windmills sitting on the small hill above Little Venice, the most photographed line of buildings in the Cyclades. Built by the Venetians in the 16th century to mill wheat for…

   Address

   Kato Mili, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   From Old Port: 15 min walk via Mitropoleos Street

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   Paraportiani Church

   Paraportiani is the famous five-in-one whitewashed church in the Kastro neighbourhood at the entrance to Chora. Construction began in 1425 and continued for nearly 250 years, joining four chapels at ground level (Agios…

   Address

   Paraportiani Church, Kastro, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   From Old Port: 4 min walk west

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   Delos Archaeological Site (UNESCO)

   Delos is the small uninhabited island 4 km west of Mykonos that was the most sacred site in the ancient Greek world, mythological birthplace of Apollo and Artemis. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1990, the…

   Address

   Delos Island, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   Daily ferry from Mykonos Old Port (25 EUR return, 30 min, 09:00 and 10:00)

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   Paradise Beach

   Paradise Beach is the original Mykonian party beach, a 250 m crescent of fine sand on the south coast that has hosted DJ sessions since the 1980s. Today it splits into two halves: the western end has Tropicana, where…

   Address

   Paradise Beach, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   KTEL bus from Fabrika Square (2 EUR, 20 min, every 30 min)

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   Super Paradise Beach

   Super Paradise sits one cove east of Paradise, with a smaller 200 m sandy beach hemmed in by dramatic granite cliffs. The atmosphere is more upmarket than its neighbour, anchored by the iconic Super Paradise Beach Club…

   Address

   Super Paradise Beach, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   KTEL bus from Fabrika Square (2 EUR, 25 min, hourly in summer)

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   Platis Gialos Beach

   Platis Gialos is a 350 m wide family beach on the south coast with shallow water that drops slowly, which makes it the safest of the south coast bays for kids. The beach is fully organised: sunbed pairs run 30-50 EUR in…

   Address

   Platis Gialos Beach, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   KTEL bus from Fabrika Square (2 EUR, 15 min, every 20 min)

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   Ano Mera Village

   Ano Mera is the only proper inland village on Mykonos, sitting 7 km east of Chora at the centre of the island. The pace is gentler than Chora: a single plateia square shaded by plane trees, a working bakery, two grocery…

   Address

   Ano Mera village square, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

   Nearest transit

   KTEL bus from Fabrika Square (1.80 EUR, 15 min, every 30 min)

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    Panagia Tourliani Monastery

    Panagia Tourliani is the spiritual heart of Mykonos, a working monastery founded in 1542 and rebuilt in its current form in 1767 around a wood-carved iconostasis from Florence widely considered the finest in the…

    Address

    Panagia Tourliani Monastery, Ano Mera 846 00, Mykonos, Greece

    Nearest transit

    KTEL bus from Fabrika Square to Ano Mera, then 2 min walk

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    Armenistis Lighthouse

    The Armenistis Lighthouse stands on a craggy headland at the north-western tip of Mykonos, built in 1891 to mark the channel where the steamship Volga sank in 1887. The 19 m white stone tower is still in service and not…

    Address

    Cape Armenistis, Fanari, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

    Nearest transit

    Taxi from Chora 16 EUR each way; quad-bike rentals from Fabrika Square

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    Aegean Maritime Museum

    The Aegean Maritime Museum is the only museum of its kind in Greece, set inside a traditional 19th century Mykonian mansion on Enoplon Dynameon Street in Chora. Founded in 1983 by shipowner George Drakopoulos, it traces…

    Address

    Enoplon Dynameon 10, Mykonos 846 00, Greece

    Nearest transit

    From Old Port: 8 min walk south via Matogianni Street

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