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The municipality of Mykonos (officially: Greek: Δήμος Μυκόνου) is a separate regional unit of the South Aegean region, and the sole municipality in the regional unit. [24] As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform , the regional unit Mykonos was created out of part of the former Cyclades Prefecture .
The Archaeological Museum of Mykonos is a museum in Mykonos, Greece. It was built in 1902 to house the findings from the Putrefaction Pit of 425/426 BC, which was discovered in 1898 on the islet of Rheneia by D. Stavropoulos. [1] It is one of the oldest museums in Greece and was designed by Alexandros Lykakis and funded by the Ministry of ...
Santorini ( Greek: Σαντορίνη, romanized : Santoríni, pronounced [sa (n)doˈrini] ), officially Thira ( Greek: Θήρα, romanized : Thíra, pronounced [ˈθira]) and Classical Greek Thera ( / ˈθɪərə / ), is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from its mainland. It is the largest island of a ...
Myconus (mythology) In Greek mythology, Myconus ( / ˈmɪkənɒs, - noʊs /, [1] [2] also UK: / ˈmiːk -/; [3] Ancient Greek: Μύκονος [ˈmikonos] Mykonos) or Mycon was a local hero and an eponymous first ruler of Mykonos. [4] He was the son or grandson of the god Apollo. [citation needed]
The Mykonos windmills are an iconic feature of the Greek island of the Mykonos. The island is one of the Cyclades islands, which neighbour Delos in the Aegean Sea. The windmills can be seen from every point of the village of Mykonos, the island's principal village, which is frequently called the Chora (which translates to "Country" in Greek ...
Delos Synagogue. / 37.4049°N 25.2745°E / 37.4049; 25.2745. The Delos Synagogue is the name given to a second century Hellenic structure that is located in Delos, in the Mykonos Municipality of the South Aegean region of modern-day Greece. Constructed between 150 and 128 BCE, the origins of the building were initially proposed as a ...
Coordinates: 37°27′40″N 25°22′30″E. Building remnants of the Early Cycladic settlement from the Early Bronze Age or end of Neolithic. Ftelia on Mykonos. Ftelia ( Greek: Φτελιά) is an archaeological site located on a beach on the island of Mykonos, Greece .
Aegean Maritime Museum. Coordinates: 37.4453°N 25.3284°E. Entrance. The Aegean Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Mykonos, Greece. The founder and chairman of the museum, George M. Drakopoulos, received the Athens Academy Award and the World Ship Trust's Award for Individual Achievement for the foundation of the museum. [1]