Paxos-map is a travel guide for Paxos which is available in a digital and paper format, designed to meet every need for information on the island. Its main purpose is to provide useful information serving other tourists and the local community.
Art gallery based in Paxos.
On the south-eastern cape of Antipaxos, Ovoros or Novara, stands the youngest of the three lighthouses. It was built in 1906 by the Greek state. When Salvator toured Antipaxos in 1885 there was nothing here but rock and reefs. The light was needed for the dangerous water around the Daskalies islets, where at the end of the nineteenth century fishermen were still pulling iron out of the wreck of a Turkish warship.
The square stone tower is joined to the keepers’ house, which has three rooms, a kitchen and service rooms. The light stands 41 metres above the sea. It went dark in the Second World War and was lit again in 1945. The incandescent burners were replaced in 1963, electricity arrived in 1987, and since 1992 it has run fully automatically: one white flash followed by three red every 6 seconds, visible for 12 nautical miles. In 2012 it was declared a monument.
How to get there: on foot from Agios Emilianos or from the beaches of the east coast, on a path through the vineyards and the maquis. There is a view over the Daskalies and towards Lefkada.
