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INSIDER TIP
Trendy
Neighbour Lágeri
Beach
For decades those in the Páros
know have regarded Náousa
Páros’s smaller neigh- Trís Ekklisíes Ampelas
bouring island of Moní
Andíparos – with its Mýkonos, Náxos, Longovárdas
relaxed and stylish Piraeus, Sýros, Sérifos Marcello Beach

café scene – as a much Parikiá Maráthi Quarries
cooler hangout.
Moní Christoú Léfkes Mármara Mólos
tou Dásous Beach
Pródromos
Andíparos Petaloúdes Moní Agíou
and is meant to have 99 doors Town Márpissa Andoníou
and windows. According to Poúnda Píso Livádi
legend, when the hundredth Paros Poúnda
door is found, Constantinople Andíparos Airport Dryós Beach
will return to Greek rule. Chrysí Aktí
Beach
Numerous earthquakes Alykí
have forced much recon­ Cave of
Andíparos
struction of the church, and
the main church was restyled Ágios
in the 10th century in the Georgios
shape of a Greek cross. The 0 kilometres 5 N
sanctuary columns date from Íos, Santoríni 0 miles 5
the pre­Christian era and the
marble screen and capitals
are of Byzantine origin. A foot­
print, set in stone, is claimed 4th­century­BC Hellenistic
to be that of Agía Theoktísti, building, which has a double THE LEGEND OF
Parikia’s patron saint. Also row of Doric columns, along AGIA THEOKTÍSTI
displayed is her severed hand. with a marble throne and a Parikiá’s patron saint,
From the back of the church 17th­century iconostasis. Theoktísti, was a
a door leads to the chapel of Given Paros’s geology, young nun captured
Ágios Nikólaos, an adapted marble artifacts unsurpris­ by pirates in the 9th
ingly dominate the displays at cen tury. She escaped to
the Archaeological Museum. Páros and lived alone in
One of its main exhibits is the woods for 35 years,
part of the priceless Parian leading a pious and
Chronicle, a historical record frugal life. Found by
of the artistic achieve ments of a hunter, she asked
ancient Greece up to 264 BC. him to bring her some
It is carved on a marble tablet Communion bread.
and was discovered in the When he returned with
kástro walls during the 17th the bread, he found she
century. Also on display are had died. Realizing she
discoveries from the Temple was a saint, the hunter
of Apollo. cut off her hand to take
Built in 1260 on the site as a relic, but found he
of the ancient acropolis, the could not leave Páros
Venetian kástro lies on a small until he reunited her
hill at the end of the main hand with her body.
street of the town. The marble
remains from the temples of
Apollo and Demeter at the Ekatondapylianí
acropolis were used to con­ ⌂ Western Parikiá § 22840
struct the eastern fortifi cation 21243 # Dawn–dusk daily
of the Venetian kástro. These
ancient columns have also Archaeological Museum
been partially used to form " ⌂ Behind the
the walls of houses neigh­ Ekatondapylianí § 22840
bouring the site. 21231 # 8am–3pm Tue–Sun
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