Greece Travel Guía

The biggest city is Mykonos known as Chora, which sits down on the western coast. One believes that the island was called after a local hero, that a descendant of the god is considered to be Apollo and was adored in the area in ancient times. Mykonos Greece is the most well-known and admired island of the Greek Islands and it fascinates the thousands of tourists every year.

In a few last years, Mykonos partially has lost its special extract and has been frequented especially by the young people who want to enjoy the island the big night life (that often is compared to Ibiza and Ayia Napa); but apart from this, Mykonos the island is popular for its multicultural ambience, its capital picturesque Cycladic full of whitewashed houses and domed blue churches and its sandy splendid beaches. Here you can choose if it is necessary to relax and to enjoy the big sea, or to remain in the middle of the crowd and to begin to amuse itself in the evening. August is, certainly, the costliest month and in this period the island especially is frequented by young Italians.

The island is also famous of being the Greek capital and the oasis for homosexuals, as this recommends an extensive diversity of friendly happy hotels in the city Mykonos, as well as the areas in the very nearby Beach of Paradise and the Beach of Paradise. Mykonos is the ideal holidays destination both for happy couples and for the bachelors in search of diversion and in turn the holidays relaxation without complications.

The capital of the island of Ciclades Mykonos is a city exceptionally charming and considered like one of the most beautiful small cities of the island. The city is typical of the architecture of the island, with cubic whitewashed houses with roofs, blue doors and windows, paved narrow streets, bloomed balconies and a picturesque and magic ambience that forms a labyrinth. Several quite preserved and hundred windmills of roofed red tiny churches heighten an image to the culture and the local custom improved moreover by many museums and the ancient historical place of nearby delos. Nevertheless, less picturesque enough than Santorini, visitors with Mykonos will find it comparable for the Greek Disneyland version.

The permission of most of the people to the beaches during the day, so early in the morning or last evening the labyrinth of narrow streets is the best moments to stroll around. The complicated design was wanted to confuse the pirates that Mykonos bothered in the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries, and this still has the wished effect.