The interior: Mykonos turns inward
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.
Ano Mera: Mykonos turns inward
Ano Mera is the island’s principal inland village, organized around its square and the Monastery of Panagia Tourliani.
More about Ano Mera: Mykonos turns inward →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.
More about Rural Mykonos: the landscape be… →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.
More about Armenistis Lighthouse: a warnin… →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.
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