Greece Travel Guía

The Windmills are one of the best attraction of Mykonos that James Bond has gained the reputation in the Movies with the movie. Attractively aligned they spend for high the Mykonos bay. ”The windmills” are found the Chora south, in way Alefkandra and Neochori. They influence visitors with its crushing and massive white forms, tier confronting the sea. Today, seven are the number that they have been preserved, of ten made mills duarnte the beginning of the XXth century. The Mykonos windmills, in the cooperation with its several bakeries, for the down one to grind of wheat, contributed to the economic trips of the island, and the making of the sponge cake ship.

Small Venice is a district, famous for its coloring balconies that are located close to the center of capital city of Mykonos. The sight of Small Venice is of incredible, brilliant and traditional houses they have an excellent sight with the balcony that hangs on the sea. At the last hour of the evening the privileged sight of the wonderful sunset in the specific area attracts visitors of all parts of the island. Here the buildings have been constructed straight on the rim of the sea with its balconies that stand out the water.

Paraportiani Esto is an asymmetric fascinating hodgepodge of five chapels amalgamated in one. It is one of the most famous architectural structures in Greece. Duarante the Middle Age, there was a high tower, fortified, back with back and on one of the earnings to the Kastro. Now there is a tidy complex of five churches, four on the ground level, and the church of the Virgin, who is the oldest of all.

The Archaeological museum of Mykonos was constructed in 1902, for to the house the finds ”of the Hole of Purification” of 426-425 aC, that was discovered in 1898 on the Rhenia necropolis, for the D. Stavropoulos. The Neoclassic original building assumed its present, "insular" form in 1934, and of big spaces, the part East, it was added in 1972. Today, there is a big vessels collection especially represented of ceramics, Cycladic that fashionable raisin from the Geometric period up to XI century. aC. Also on the espectácular and wonderful black figure and the ceramics of red the finds of diverse figures, including period headstones helenísticas and another sculpture. It is opened of 08.30-15.00, from Tuesday until Sunday. On Monday the museum is closed.

The Museum the Marine Aegean Sea is completely not lucrative institution that shows the nautical thin collection of instruments and ancient vessels from the period pre-Minoan about the XIXth century. It was founded in 1983 and in 1985 it was when this one opened its doors to the public, to the island of Mykonos to study and to preserve the marine Greek history and of tradition limited by Aegean Sea.

Delos Uno de los sitios of archaeological more acquaintances of Greece, an island located to 2 kilometers is the Mykonos west. The entire island has been declared a national museum. This Museum was erected in 1904 by the Archaeological Society in Athens and at first it was constituted by five western spaces. The present demonstration is organized in nine spaces. Six parts of está are the statues and mitigation found in delos (one of the best collections in the world), two ceramics of the limits of the prehistoric period to the last period helenístico, and the houses with many objects of daily life, found in the private houses.

The Monastery of Panagia Tourliani is located to 8 kilometers to the east of Mykonos, founded in 1542 and then it called to the church of the Presentation of Virgin Mary (”Eisodia tis Panagias“). The monastery was renewed in 1767 and it took its real name in the dedication to the Blessed Icon of Virgin Mary found in the field of Tourlos, benefactor of the island which day is commemorated on August 15.

The Popular Mykonos museum (founded during May, 1958) is located in the Venetian Castle and it is stored in a traditional XVIIIth century construction. The visitor of the museum will see an interesting collection of local suits, instruments and the effects of house of past stations, furnitures, objects of ceramics and several main photos of the island and historical documents.

Petros the Pelican an old figure of the wharves of the city, “Petro“ has been the official Mykonos pet during more than 50 years. At first the pelican was found after a thunderstorm behind in the year 1950. After the Petro death to the being so popular that a new pelican was presented like a successor. Now there are two pelicans that occupy the island, which sometimes can be found on in the city as well as in the port.

Churches of Age Byzantina the cathedral, Zoodoxos Pigi (Mitropoli), and Panachra, Agia Kyriaki, Agioa Nikolaos of the Port and Agia Eleni are someone of different age churches significant Byzantine post found in the Chora, with the typical architecture, beautiful icons and meticulously worked with grills that separate the choir of the ship (there are more than 70 churches in the city, most of which have been declared historic monuments by the Department of Culture. The big number of chapels and churches to the island is the result so much of a wealth of engaged offerings as of the custom Mykonian of preserving the bones of its dead person in the family sanctums walls.