The cistern of the Holy Anargyroi was designed and begun in the Napoleonic period. Work stopped for several years, resumed in 1818 under British rule and finished in 1821; a local newspaper records a rebuilding in 1861. It was the first large public cistern on Paxos, and on its own it held enough water for Gaios. The tank is cylindrical, Read more...

Agios Nikolaos gives his name to the islet that closes the harbour of Gaios. The church is a dependency of the Panagia of the Vellianites and appears in the catalogue of 1686, so it already stood when the Venetian castle above it was still in use. It sits at the southern end of the islet, inside the walls. Its stone Read more...

The Museum of Paxos holds what the island itself has handed in: old tools and household equipment, prehistoric finds, antiquities raised from the sea, and Venetian pistols among the later pieces. What makes it unlike most small museums is exactly that. The collection was not assembled by a ministry or bought at auction; almost everything in it was given by Read more...