Cyclades Guide - Escale Yachting

P a r o s
croquettes, herring salad, ladosoupa (soup with pasta),
kolitsanokeftedes (seafood croquettes), amanitokeftedes (mushroom
croquettes), hortofouskotes (pies with wild greens), bean pie, garlic
bulb paté. Paros is famous for its cheeses, and for wine from the select
varieties mandilaria and monemvasia. Sweet flavours are dominated
by macaroons, samota figs, petimezopita (molasses pie), and
skaltsounia pastries.
Sea and action
The island has several diving schools (the beaches Chrysi Akti, Santa
Maria, and Pounta are ideal for diving). Pounta is the best beach for
kite surfing, while the favourite beaches for windsurfing are Tserdakia,
Chrysi Akti, Santa Maria and Pounta. The island also has surfing clubs.
Amateur fishermen will find ideal spots on the coasts of Paros. In
addition, daily trips with sailing boats are organised from Naousa and
Santa Maria to Naxos, but also to Mykonos, Amorgos, Antiparos,
Small Cyclades.
Further on, the road that links Parikia to Alyki, near the monastery of
the 'Christos Dasus” (Jesus of the forest), there is a valley with rich
vegetation, where hundreds of butterflies gather during summer
months (the area is called Petaloudes, the Greek word for butterflies).
ONLY IN PAROS
At Marathi in the island's interior, visitors can see the ancient quarries
of lychnites, the famous Parian marble used to sculpt great works like
the Venus of Milo, Hermes of Praxiteles, the korai of Parthenon, the
temple of Apollo in Delos, and many more. It only takes one visit to
carry you back to the beginning of creation called Art.
Let's go to Antiparos...
Only a stone's throw away!!!
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