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  • Plakes is on the coastal road from Gaios towards Mogonisi, a small beach of fine pebbles under dense vegetation, reached by a short path down from the road.

    The name means slabs, and it describes what you sit on. Flat rock runs out beside the pebbles, which is where most people spread out, and that stone is the same material that Paxos exported for a century. The island quarried flat slabs and shipped them from Lakka and Loggos to Corfu, Parga, Preveza and Patras, carried down to the boats on the heads of the women of the villages.

    It is small, it is close to Gaios, and it is one of the easiest swims on the island if you are staying in town.

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