Naxos rewards couples who want romance without the crowds or the price tag of the flashier Cyclades. It is the largest island in the group, yet it feels unhurried: long sandy beaches, a maze-like medieval Chora, mountain villages wrapped in vineyards, and the golden marble Portara framing the sunset. Prices stay gentler than on Santorini … Read more
Naxos and Mykonos sit side by side in the central Cyclades, yet they offer travellers two very different holidays. Naxos is the largest Cycladic island, greener and more authentic, known for long sandy beaches, mountain villages, farming traditions and gentle prices. Mykonos is smaller, drier and world-famous for glamour, cosmopolitan crowds, designer boutiques and legendary … Read more
Naxos and Santorini sit close together in the Cyclades, yet they offer almost opposite holidays, which is exactly why travellers agonise over choosing between them. Naxos is the largest island of the group: green, mountainous, dotted with old villages and blessed with long sandy beaches, and it stays refreshingly affordable and authentic. Santorini is smaller … Read more
Agiassos Beach lies at the far southern tip of Naxos, the largest island in the Cyclades, where the paved road runs out and the coastline turns quiet and wild. It is a wide arc of pale, soft sand backed by low dunes and a fertile plain, facing a bay of shallow, exceptionally clear water. Agiassos … Read more
High in the mountains of eastern Naxos, above the tiny village of Danakos, stands one of the most quietly powerful monuments on the island. The Christos Fotodotis Monastery looks less like a church and more like a small fortress, its pale stone walls rising from a green slope with the whole valley falling away below. … Read more
The Cheimarros Tower, known locally as Pyrgos Cheimarrou, is one of the most striking ancient monuments on Naxos and one of the best-preserved round towers left standing anywhere in Greece. Rising from a lonely mountainside in the island’s rugged south, it was built from finely fitted white marble drums that still glow against the grey … Read more
Kinidaros is a lively mountain village in the green interior of Naxos, set among terraced slopes, running springs and the working marble quarries that give the whole area its distinctive white glow. It sits well inland from the coast, roughly in the centre of the island, where the land rises into oak and plane trees … Read more
The Potamia villages sit in one of the greenest corners of Naxos, a watered valley just a short drive inland from Naxos Town. Three linked settlements, Ano, Mesi and Kato Potamia, follow a running stream through dense gardens, orchards and old watermills, giving the area a lushness that feels unusual in the dry Cyclades. Shaded … Read more
Koronida, still widely known by its older name Komiaki, is the highest traditional village on Naxos, set deep in the green northern mountains far above the coast. It is a place of terraced vineyards, cool mountain air, running springs and wide views over the northern Aegean, where daily life keeps a slow, authentic rhythm that … Read more
Moutsouna sits on the wild, unspoilt east coast of Naxos, a small fishing village that most visitors reach only after a slow, scenic drive over the island’s mountains. It faces the open Aegean, with a sheltered bay, a handful of houses, a short beach and a couple of tavernas serving the day’s catch. Once the … Read more