Away from the coastline, Mykonos is a working agricultural landscape of dry-stone walls, chapels and a single inland village built around a monastery. This section covers Ano Mera and the rural routes most visitors never take.
Ano Mera is the natural starting point; the individual landscape and coast pages build a half-day or full-day route around it.
In This Section
- Ano Mera: Mykonos turns inward — Ano Mera is the island’s principal inland village, organized around its square and the Monastery of Panagia Tourliani.
- Rural Mykonos: the landscape behind the white facades — The interior of Mykonos is a dry Cycladic landscape divided by stone walls, scattered with chapels, farmsteads and traces of cultivation.
- Armenistis Lighthouse: a warning light, not just a viewpoint — Armenistis Lighthouse was built in 1891 after the 1887 wreck of the steamship Volta exposed the danger of the channel.
- Ftelia: a wind-shaped bay with a Neolithic past — Ftelia is a broad north-facing bay known for wind exposure and the remains of an important Late Neolithic settlement excavated from the 1990s.