Where the path to the Ostries sets off below Agia Paraskevi, a stone arch opens in the drystone wall. Steps go down inside it to the water, and a long trough, cut from a single block, stands in front. This is the first of the wells of Ostria. There are others: three cisterns cut into the living rock, known by Read more...

The Olive Museum of Paxos occupies an old stone press of the eighteenth century, just outside Magazia. Here you can follow the whole process by which the island turned its one crop into money: the crushing of the fruit under the stone, the pressing, the separation of the oil. Paxos lived from this. By the 1920s roughly half the surface Read more...

Just opposite the road the leads to Avlaki and following the stone-build path in front of you lies the cistern “Sterna Eliniki”, dating from the Venetian period. The cistern is build on the edge of the natural rock formation and is of circular shape. Water is still collected today from the paved surface that slopes towards the center. During the Read more...

On the north side of Gaios harbour stands the largest public building the island ever had: the Venetian governor’s residence, which under the British Protectorate became the English Governorate. Paxos was administered from here. In the nineteenth century the island had its own governor, answerable to the prefect of Corfu, and a visitor in the 1880s noted the governor’s great Read more...

At the edge of Loggos beach, beside the old primary school, stands the largest industrial building on Paxos: the Anemogiannis factory, with its chimney of twenty-four metres. The Anemogiannis family bought the plot in 1874 and the brothers Stefanos and Ioannis began with an olive press. After Stefanos died in 1910 his son Spyros enlarged it into a works that Read more...

The cistern of the Holy Apostles was begun in 1825 and completed in 1846, the date cut into the paving of its catchment surface. The decorative pillars were added in 1848, and the approach was finished in 1851, according to the Book of the Elders of Paxos. It is without question the most elaborate cistern on the island and one Read more...

George Anemogiannis was born on Paxos in 1798. When the Greek Revolution broke out in 1821 he was serving as a sailor on a ship belonging to Laskarina Bouboulina, under captain N. Orlof. He was engaged to be married; the wedding was set for that June. On 10 June 1821, off Nafpaktos, he volunteered to steer a fire ship against Read more...

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...

The Venetian castle of Paxos,   now known as the castle of Saint Nicholas, began been built in 1423 and was completed in 1510.   Built on top of the homonymous natural island opposite Gaios, it was constructed by the Venetian Baron of the island Adam II San Hipolito as a measure of protection from pirates and Ottomans.   According to a research by an Italian Read more...

Cisterns of Sarakinos are known as “Bouloukou” locate in an archaeological site near the shops in the village Boikatika .They are easily found by following the signs which will lead you on a beautiful trail which you will follow walking for 4 minutes. Cisterns these look like small huts built with ashlar stones. Access is quite easy since it requires 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...