Located north of the island and reaches the seabed 40 meters. The location is rich in fauna. On the bottom you will find fish like Skaros (parrot), pike (barracuda species), bream (red snapper) and amberjack. Read more...

Planos lies behind the lighthouse headland of Lakka, on the northern tip of the island, and it has a date attached to it that no other beach on Paxos can claim. When the British took the Ionian islands, their troops came ashore here. The account written in 1885 says it plainly: when the English occupied Paxos they landed at the Read more...

At the northern tip of Paxos, above the sheer cliffs that look across to Corfu, stands one of the most historic lighthouses of the Ionian. The first light was lit here in 1825, under British protection, burning olive oil behind fixed parabolic mirrors, and it guided ships through the channel between southern Corfu and Paxos. Its mechanism was improved twice, Read more...

Agios Thomas in Lakka appears in none of the old catalogues. The simplest explanation is the one the Greek record gives: it is a small church and was probably built around 1880, long after the lists were drawn up. That makes it one of the youngest churches on Paxos, and a useful reminder that the island did not stop building Read more...

Agios Vasilios at Dalietatika belongs to the Makris, Mastoras, Argyros and Grammatikos families and is listed in 1781. Like the Agios Dimitrios a little below it, its foundations were laid in 1750 and work was still under way in 1777: the hamlet was building two churches at once, over a generation. Feast day: 1 January. Read more...