A short path leads out to one of the steepest cliffs on Paxos, some forty-five metres above the sea, on the west coast. The whole west side of the island is built this way: the rock lies in horizontal beds, and the sea has cut into them to make caves one above the other. A nineteenth-century description of the Mousmouli Read more...

The windmill known as the Mill of Lesianitis stands at Tranakatika, just outside Gaios, on a spur crowned by the building itself. It is round, built of stone, with an internal stone stair and four windows set symmetrically at the top. It stands on a base twice its own diameter. It was raised in about 1780, which makes it one 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...

South of Ortholithos, you can find the reef Agrilis. The depth of the point reaches the 30 meters. There is a small cave at 15 meters where you will find a passage through the reef. 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...