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Discover
Mykonos island
Why to visit Mykonos…
It is an island made by Gods for people. Who hasn’t have anything to say about Myconos, who hasn’t swim in its vast boundless blue wkters, who hasn’t have lived unforgettable moments… Myconos, the sea, the sky, the sun, the hospitality, the fun, the harmony, the charm.
A never-ending real myth surrounding us, every part of it a reality, something special, challenging you to live it, taste it, relish it. An barren island, arid, burned by the sun but full of golden beaches and crystal waters. The white color, the stone and the scattered mountains are indelible memories in the mind. The natural elements are vivid and strong, filling you, guiding you in new sensations; the air, the sun, the moon are the eternal guides. The harmony of the Myconian architecture is really astonishing. The location and the way the town of Myconos is build -inside the Northern eye- the port, the particular colors, it is an exceptional masterpiece. No man and no plan would be able to create something so unique. The feeling of getting lost in the alleys is fascinating. The exit to the seashore is where we end our walk, with a glass of ouzo and the view of the boats. You walk and think that you know everybody…you wave and they wave back. As if you have grown up in this neighborhood. Everything is simple, familiar, hospitable. A warm and relaxing atmosphere. Hospitality and a hug are something you can take with you and carry it forever. And when the sun sets the mood changes.
The rhythm becomes vibrant, fast,
full
of fantasy and intensity.
You can experience everything you want,
as much as you want it,
as much as
you can handle it.
Everything is nearby, just beside you, you only
make the choice…
You simply choose to come in Mykonos.
Enjoy your trip
to a unique island!
GReek tourist guides |
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With boat
From Piraeus Port Daily from 07:00 passenger ferries and speedboats deparure from the port of Piraeus leaving for the island of Mykonos. Mykonos is some 94 nautical miles southeast of Piraeus. The trip with the boat is approximately
5 hours and the most usual route is:
Syros-Tinos-Mykonos. The trip with a speedboat is approximately 3 hours with a variety of routes.
High-speed returning late afternoon in Piraeus and departing again during the afternoon hours, 16:30-17:00.
With Ferry
from Rafina Port:
Daily from 07:15 passenger ferries
and speedboats depart from the port of Rafina, for the islands of Andros, Tinos and Mykonos. The smaller fast
ferries transfer only passengers and no vehicles and running two services per day during winter months. On less than 2.5 hours you can reach the old harbor on the island.
Mykonos is 74 nautical miles southeast
of Rafina.
It can be reached by KTEL bus .
Daily bus service from the Pedio of the Areos in Athens
With a private car through the Attiki Odos and heading to Markopoulo, following the exit that says, Rafina. Then drive on Marathonos Avenue until you see a sign for Rafina.
If you are at the Eleftherios Venizelos Airport you can use the buses at the airport heading to Rafina or take a taxi .The bus fee is about € 3, while taxi costs about € 25 - € 30.
Useful Telephones:
Rafina Port:
Tel. +30 22940 22300 or 22940 22487
Strintzis Lines Rafina: Tel. 22940 23150
Seaways Lines Rafina: Tel. 22940 24660
Aqua Lines Rafina: Tel. 22940 23300
Mykonos Port Authorities:
Tel. 22890 22218
General inquiries:
Tel. 14944
Athens Central Bus Station:
Tel. 210 821-0872 or 210 823-0007
Rafina Central Bus Station
Tel. 22940 23440
By plane from the airport "Eleftherios Venizelos"
There are two Greek airline companies which are running daily to the island of Mykonos. In the summer months the service is very regularly and Mykonos airport accepts and great number of abroad flights.
Arrival at the aiprort" Eleftherios Venizelos " is by using proastiakos train service and ATHENS METRO service. The Mykonos airport is 4 km from the Town of Mykonos and there is taxi service outside the airport. Also in the airport you can find car rental agencies, and information kiosk of the Association
of Hoteliers Mykonos.
| HOW TO GET AROUND IN MYKONOS |
How to get around in Mykonos
By car or motorbike
The car although it cost more than public transport,
it is ideal for exploring every corner of the island and discover hidden beauty. |
You can simply, quickly
and cheaply to rent cars can take it to the port or airport.
Renting a car or motorbike
is a great way to be able
to travel to Mykonos
with the pace that suits you best. Rent a car for the whole or a part of your vacation.
You can find many rental car companies, many
of which offer special prices.
Documents you will need
You will need to provide a valid driving licence,
issued in your country
of residence at least one year ago (some companies
require 2 years).
If your permit has been issued with additional documents, you should submit them as well. Where your permit has been issued to another
EC / ECA, you may need an international driving licence.
By Taxi
The taxi is clearly the most rested means of transport, but also the most expensive. The levels are set each year and are specific to each destination on the island,
with no taximeters.
You can find taxis in town, (square Manto) and Fabrica
By Bus
It is the surest and most inexpensive way to get around on the island.
The regular bus service offers the best and most economical way to visit all locations.
There are 3 bus stations
in three different areas
of the island.
Bus Station 1
at Fabrica going to:
Platys Gyalos, Psarou, Ornos, Agios Ioannis, Paradise and Paraga.
Bus Station 2
OTE area going to:
Ano Mera, τον Kalafati
and Elia.
Bus Station 3
Old Port going to:
New Port and Agios Stefanos
Bus station
Contact Number: (+30) 22890 23.360,
(+30) 22890 26.797
Fax: (+30) 22890 28.091 www.ktelmykonos.gr
By caique (small boat)
In every Greek island
the caiques are very popular transport option.
It is absolutely safe and the ticket cost is real low.
It is the most perfect way
to take you to the most remote beaches on the island. You can take them from Platis Gialos beabh, located south
of the island and is one of the most popular beaches;
boat trips visit neighbour beaches, Paradise, Super paradise, Paranga, Elia. A must to do.
By Car or by Boat...
The headquarters
of the Association is in Platys Yalos from where the routes start for the southern beaches. Boats also run from the beach of Ornos with the same destinations.
Best beaches in Mykonos
Perhaps the most important
of the tourist asset of Mykonos, that distinguish it from other islands are the beaches. Here are without doubt the most - and best -
to be found . Particularly in the South, the picturesque coves with sandy beaches follow one another. Those beaches, can be reached by car or motorbike, since the radial roads of the island starting from the Mykonos town stretches nearly to each corner. Precisely because
of that particular road network in the island, many Southern beaches are linked with each other with a boat operating on a regular service,
all day all summer,
which offers the visitor a very interesting excursion opportunity. Starting someone from Mykonos town (at the port of which there is a small beach that many holidaymakers and city residents prefer, because
of convenience) and directed to the south, will meet with the series follows the popular beaches:
Agios Ioannis BEACH
The beach, looking at Delos and the channel between Mykonos and Delos. It is the beach with the most famous feast of the island, Ai.Giannis at the end of September...
Agios Stefanos BEACH
On the left side of the sea shore,one can find the traditional old Agios Stefanos, chapel....
Agrari BEACH
Another beautiful beach
on the island, most isolated, for those who do not love the crowds...
Elia BEACH
One of the most beautiful beaches on the island with white sand, easy access
and a good word to describe it would be «Gay friendly»....
Fokos BEACH
There it is .. Mobile offline, complete peace and incredible sand.! A beautiful beach right after the second dam of Mykonos with landscape completely different from normal Cycladic....
Ftelia BEACH
Windsurfing - air waves
and incredible wind ! T
he best beach for incredible leaps, waveriding and windsurf. North beach located in Panormos Bay with amazing water and sand...
Kalafatis-Agia Anna BEACHES
Two nice beaches with vast stretches of sand and clear waters. Among them, the small peninsula "Divounia" with a fishing harbour. Beautiful scenery, transportation, and a school of surfing and diving...
Kalo Livadi BEACH
It is also a beautiful, a very popular beach in the southern part of the island. It is located between Elia and Kalafatis and is one of the biggest beaches in length and in width...
Kapari BEACH
Small beach after Agios Ioannis beach....
Korfos BEACH
The beach is just before Ornos Beach and at 2.5 km
after Mykonos Town..
Lia BEACH
The last of the southern beaches that you can go by car. The road is long and hard, but its beauty will compensate you...
Megali Ammos BEACH
Ten minute walk from the center of Mykonos Town.
This Beach is without any umbrellas and sunbeds because of the very strong northern winds...
Mirsini BEACH
Next to Fokos. They complement each other.
Truly relaxing vacations
and swimming.
The beach is divided into two smaller parts with a small part of rock cascading down to the sea...
Ornos BEACH
Protected by wind Ornos beach located south of Korfos, with regular transportation, and a significant number of hotels and restaurants..
Panormos-Agios Sostis BEACHES
Large, sandy beach - one
of the nicest in Mykonos-north of the island. At the beach, you will not find umbrellas
and deck chairs or beach bars. Before it become so popular
it was the mainly occupied
by nudists...
Paradise BEACH
A beautiful and crowded beach, famous since the days of "hippies." Great beach with coarse sand, located in the southern part of the island...
Paraga BEACH
Pretty and small beach
with a beautiful landscape (cape Drapanos). Located behind of the beach of Agia Anna and it has one of the two camping on the island...
Platys Gyalos BEACH
It is perhaps the most overpopulated beach on the island. Sheltered by hotels and organised, with umbrellas and sunbeds, addressed
to tourists, but is an ideal solution for mothers with children..
Psarou BEACH
A fashionable and organized beach with water sports,diving school..
Super Paradise BEACH
The most famous beach on the island. The parties
(usually starting early in the evening) arising on the beach, they have been the most important pole of attraction
for young people and those who are still feeling young...
Don't miss it!
MYKONOS = ENTERTAINMENT
Mykonos Holds high marks among leading clubbing destinations in the Mediterranean and the nightlife, consider
one of the best in Europe.
Mykonos has rightly earned the title of most cosmopolitan island of Greece.
Here travelers from all social classes and cultures come together to create an atmosphere of joy.
This unique island in the Cyclades has managed over the years to attract more and more visitors.
Mykonos also attracts internationally famous DJ's,
on the island clubs and bars.
Worldwide known is the Super Paradise, and Paradise Beach.
Additionally, Mykonos is a
gay-friendly island during
the summer, and many gay clubs are all over to be found.
Overall, the island is widely known for its very interesting night life, with countless bars and clubs, which can serve even the most visitors.
The night clubs of Mykonos island are so many
and so different one from another, which is undoubtedly will get your attention.
There are no strict rules
of dress code, because to end up being danced to any of the clubs with a swimsuit and sunglasses, is the natural flow of things ...
Mykonos - Entertainment - Mykonos - summer night club First stop for a drink you can make at the bars
of Alefkantras area and Little Venice, in order to enjoy the beautiful sunset, drinking cocktails at tables on the sea or in the wooden balcony
of the "Venetian" area
At Matogianni Street you will find bars and lounge-cafe tastefully decorated, and a great variety of music.
If you are lucky and find an empty one of the few tables located at the entrance of the cafes and bars, you will enjoy you’re drinks watching the masses of travelers pass in front of you. After making a pass at all bars and you still can handle more dance, drop a visit on one of the clubs on the island, where the crowds getting wild on the tables
and sidebars with the most famous Greek and foreign music hits.
For the lovers of Greek live music places are open until late Greek venues known as “bouzoukia”.
As for the next morning - another day starts
at one of the seaside beach-bar in Mykonos - declaring that the fun on the island
of winds throughout the day. It will be many years before losing the position of number one on tourism destination, around Greece and particularly in a frenetic fun!
| FAMOUS MYKONOS LOCAL PRODUCTS |
Louza
of Mykonos
Louza of Mykonos is a very characteristic and delicious snack which competes
in terms of preference,
for those who have tried
the Greek delicacies,
with the –also famous– sausages of Mykonos.
This is a traditional type
of cooked pork meat
which is produced
by homegrown veal
and includes the whole
of the fillet from the back
of the animal with the bit
of the fat that covers it.
This dries up and is “broiled” by the north wind of the beginning of winter and the sun, prepared with a lot of salt, pepper and other
spices (thribi).
After it has well seasoned that way, louza can be preserved for as much time as we want in the freezer, so that it won’t lose its freshness after it has dried. It is served as
a delicacy, cut in thin slices which take the colour of dark rosy red and leave all its tastiness and rich aroma
to the mouth.
This is the ‘delicatessen’ of Mykonian gastronomy.
The small louza, which is made from the other back muscle of the hog – “porterhouse” –,
is even softer and is called “bouboulo”. * Lonza, in the Italian South. In Cyprus,
it is known as “lountza”.
Kopanisti of Mykonos Kopanisti of Mykonos
is a characteristic, very spicy cheese, which the tasters appreciate for its special peppery tastiness.
It excellently accompanies ouzo and any other strong Greek aperitif, on bread or
–in the Mykonian way–
on sop barley rusk, together with tomatoes or cucumber.
It can also be mixed with butter or some other white cheese to produce a lighter taste, but then the mixture cannot be preserved. Kopanisti is the result
of a controlled and repeated fermentation which is done through the care of the traditional cheesemaker
on a base of a homemade mixed cheese (from goat and sheep milk), which is easily preserved after maturing
in an earthen or glass jar.
Its making is also known
to other Cyclades islands,
but it is far different than
the kopanisti of Mykonos which is largely considered
as a very strong
and aromatic one.
METEOROLOGY
The main winds in the area are north with a percentage that reaches 38.2%, followed by the northeast winds
with a percentage of 16.3%. The percentage of calm is small and reaches almost 11.3%.
The intension of the winds
is medium and varies
from 2 to 6 Beaufort.
The scheme that follows presents the wind graph
as it results for the period
of 1989-1996.
South Aegean Sea has important climatologic
changes due to its geographical position,
the size and the distance
of the islands from the closest coasts of the mainland.
The islands of the Aegean Sea can be differentiated into three groups with similar climatic data:
Central and South Cyclades (Folegandros, Paros, Milos, Kimolos, Sifnos, Serifos, Syros, Myconos, Naksos, Amorgos, Anafi, Thera, Ios, Sikinos)
North Cyclades
(Kythnos, Kea, Andros, Tinos)
Dodekanisa
All the islands have mild Mediterranean climate,
which in the SE areas tends
to be sea climate.
The winter is very mild, with average temperature that in many islands of the Cyclades is over 120 C. During summer the average temperature is over 250 C in most of the islands, the atmosphere is still cool though due to the winds and the sea.br
The climatic conditions of the area of the South Cyclades are characterized as favorable for agricultural production.
The free of frost period of the year, very important for many plants, is exceptionally large and it lasts from March the 1st till November the 15th, i.e.
for 260 days per year.
A limiting factor of the production and generally
of the agricultural evolution
of the island is the extended dry period with low annual average height of rain that ascends to 371,7 mm
(for the period 1989-1996).
According classical mythology, the Giants killed by Hercules
in a fierce battle, are buried on the island under imposing blocks of mykonian granite. The name “Mykonos”, somewhat pejoratively, means a mass of stones’ or a rocky place; a later tradition attributes the name of the island to a hero by the name of Mykonos, the son of the king of Delos, Anios,
who was the son of Appolon and nymphe Rhoio-
a descendent of Dionysus.
The Kares and Phoenicians may have been the first inhabitants of Mykonos,
but Ionians from Athens were established colonists and in control of the island by around 1000 B.C, having expelled the previous occupants. Historical sources confirm the following: in ancient times there were two towns on the island;
in 490B.C, the Persian generals Datis and Artaphernes made
a brief stopover in Mykonos;
It was a poor island with limited agricultural resources. In ancient, pantheistic times, Dionysos, Demetra, Zeus, Appolon, Poseidon and Heracles were the principle gods worshiped here.
Later in history the island belonged to the Romans and subsequently to the Byzantines, who have fortified the island against the Arab raids of the 7th century, kept control of it until the 12th century. After the fall of Constantinople,
at the end of the 4th Crusade (1204), the island was occupied, as their seigneur (stronghold) by Andrea and Jeremia Ghisi – relatives of Dandolo, the Doge of Venice. In 1292 it was looted and pillage by the Catalans, and, subsequently, in 1390, given over to the Venetians,
in 1390, by the last of the Ghizi overlord. In 1537, while still under Venetian domination, the island suffered a catastrophic attack by Barbarossa, the admiral
of Souleiman the Magnificent. Later, under Kapudan Pasha, the head of the Ottoman fleet the island is practically self-governed, according to the system of the period,
by a functionary called
a “voivode” and a council (body of “syndics”) who always tried to maintain an equal distance from both Turks and Venetians (the last of whom withdrew definitively from the region, in 1718, after the fall of the castle of Tinos to the Ottomans).
The popular of the Mykonos (which during modern times has fluctuated, generally from 2000 to 5000 people) was increased by colonies of immigrants (from nearby island and as well as from Crete) during time of starvation and epidemics which often followed the periods of conflict, until the late 18th century. The Mykonos, who throughout the same period were known as excellent sailors, were successful in trade and shipping and, also, piracy was not unheard of… Many islanders were active in the “Orlof Insurrection” ( led by the Orloff brothers, 1770-74), which resulted favorably, for them as well as for Catherine the Great in, due to the very profitable treaties concerning trade between the Ottomans and the Russian Empire.
Soon after the out break the Greek Revolution 1821, the Mykonians, roused and led by the lady Mando Mavrogenous (an- aristocrat educated with the most fervent ideas of the Enlightment- who become a popular nation heroine) successfully impeded a landing of a squadron of the Ottoman fleet in 1822. They participated actively in the war , with four armed ships (two of the totally outfitted and supplied at Lady Mando’s expenses ; before the war over she had spend almost
all of her , considerable, family fortune).
After the establishment
of the modern Greek State, the activity of the local upper-
and lower- middle class revived the island economy through the consolidate of trade relations with south Russia, Moldavia and Walachia. Mykonian merchants were established in Constantinople, Smyrna, Alexandria, Syros, Livorno
and Marseilles. The predominance of stream technology over the traditional commerce of the sailing ships, at the end of the 19th century, the subsequent opening of the Corinth Canal (1904) and the upheavals of World War I resulted ina depression of the local economy; many Myconians left to find work abroad (mainly in US) and in the going centers of mainland Greece (Piraeus, Athens). The development of tourism in the following decades has provided
a means of the islands’ economy development.
The prolonged excavations
of the French School of Archeology,
begun in Delas in 1873, focused attention on the region- at least that the happy few who, attracted
by the charm of classical Greece, had the means and the opportunity to travel.
In the early 30s already,
many famous artists, politicians and wealthy people, mainly from Europe, began spending vacation on the island, attracted by its unique atmosphere. Mykonos has adapted well to the post-war situation and the gradual growth of the tourism industry in south Europe: the island has turned into
a cosmopolitan locale
and is one of the most successful growth – models,
of its type and scale in Europe.
Holy Saturday and the island begins its preparations
for the glad message
of Christ’s Resurrection. Already this morning the great Vesper was chanted
and for the first time the verse “The Lord is resurrected”
is heard. The evening today
in all churches the priests will shout “Christ is resurrected!“ in a noisy atmosphere.
The holy Light, with the invitation of the priest “Receive the light”
it will be shared to all Christians in order to be taken to their houses and make
the mark of the cross
with the smoke of the candle at the door’s top.
The tripe and herbs soup
and the red eggs will wait at the table.
It is the payback for being abstemious and fasting after the period of fasting weather it was kept for 40 days,
or one week, or even
one day.!
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