Pantokratoras at Ypapandi belongs to the Argyros family and appears in the catalogue of 1686. It was rebuilt on its original foundations by the monk Ionikios Argyros in 1760. A visitor in the 1880s called it a thoroughly unpretentious little church, and meant it kindly: a plain projecting sanctuary, a mossy forecourt, a lozenge-patterned side doorway, a square door with 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...

Agios Nikolaos at Magazia, known as the Agios Nikolaos of Manesis, belongs to the Manesis and Grammatikos families and appears in the catalogue of 1686. It was renovated in 1803. On the wall there is an inscription that can no longer be read. Paxiot churches are usually generous with their dates (over a door, in the middle flagstone of a Read more...

The underwater cave Sunshine (aka Achai 2) is on the west coast of Paxos. A cave with special morphological interest because at the depth of the cave, the roof has a hole. This underwater cave offers cave divers a spectacular sight when sunrays pass through the hole illuminating the cave with a magical way. Read more...

On the west side of the island locates the cave Seal Cave. Many holes, rocky bottom and a cave. If you are lucky you may meet seals Monachus-Monachus which is a protected species. Read more...

The balcony of Kastanida is the viewpoint above Lakka, reached by taking the turning to the right after the primary school and following it to the end. Kastanida is the old quarter of the stonecutters. The flagstones that paved the churchyards, the cisterns and the threshing floors of Paxos were cut here, and for a long time dressed stone was Read more...

Agios Isavros stands on the highest point of Paxos, a little over two hundred metres above the sea, in the middle of the island. From the yard you look down on both coasts at once, and on a clear day across to Corfu and the mountains of Epirus. In the churchyard there is a well dating from 1935. On an Read more...