Greece Travel Guía

According to the mythology, Mykonos stayed with place after the battle between Zeus and the Giants. The petrified bodies of the giants that Hércules killed and formed Mykonos. A later tradition attributes the name of the island to a hero for the name of Mykonos, the son of king Mítico de Delos Anios who was a descendant of the god Apollo and the nymph Rio. During these ancient times, Mykonos, due to its proximity to of the island of that time extremely filled with delos (placed 2km far), it became very important to some like the flight for citizens Delian.

The first residents of the island were Taken care, Phoenicians and Cretans but later Ions came from Athens to Mykonos in the IXth century aC. At first, the island had two main cities: Mykonos on the western coast, where the city is today, and Panormos on the north coast. Immediately after the Persian Wars, the island was in a financial decline, which was clear of the small contribution to the Coalition Athenian in which this belonged.

After the destination of the rest Ciclades there came the Spartan control followed by the Macedonian, the Ptolemeans of Egypt, and finally the Romans. During the Wars Mithredatian the island experienced a main catastrophe. The Byzantine age Mykonos belonged in the Aegean Sea Thema and in the Middle Age this came under the authority of the brothers Gizi up to its death. Then this happened in the control of Venice up to the Barbarosa plundering and straight after it was directed of the Turks.

After this the island did a naval influence to itself and during the XIXth century this was a focus pirate. During a small period (1770-1774) the Russians dominated it. During the Greek revolution of 1821 the population took part actively, and Cloak Mavrogenous became a national hero. Immigrants finally Greek came to the islands and this later came in accordance with the Greek rule. Mykonians is famous sailors and an interesting flotilla can be seen in the wharves in Chora (the main city of Mykonos). Several persons say that you have not seen Greece before you have seen Mykonos. During 1933 the first visitors appear and it is necessary to visit the archaeological place to the sacred island of delos and the Museum of Mykonos, while about the middle of the fifties, Mykonos begins to transform in tourist cosmopolitan resource of recent years, attracting visitors of the whole world.