Mykonos city description and photos - Greece: Mykonos island (Topic)

Mykonos town description and photos - Greece: Mykonos island. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Mykonos.

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The city of Mykonos, which has a second name - Chora, is a maze of small narrow streets and white cube houses. It's not hard to get lost here.

The old part of the city - Castro - is located just above the coastal area. The Ethnographic Museum, housed in an elegant mansion, displays a collection of ceramics, old embroidery and textiles, as well as the restored Vonis windmill. In this part of the city, there is the unusual Paraportiani church, which consists of some curved lines. The church was built in two tiers on the site of the ancient city gate in the 15th-17th centuries. To the north of it lies the most famous corner of the city - Alefandra, or Little Venice. All buildings here are painted by the artists who live in them. An Orthodox cathedral is located in the main square.

The collection of the Maritime Museum is dedicated to the art of ancient navigation in the Aegean Sea. Here you can see models of sailing ships, including ancient Greek ships, as well as navigational instruments and paintings by marine painters. The 19th century Cycladic house (Lena House) has preserved typical furniture, furnishings, and applied art of those times.

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