On the northwest side of the island locates the rocky island of Katergo. It is a point of deep dive at 30 meters but you can stop and admire the variety of large fish like sinagrides (red snapper), groupers and amberjack. The islet morphology is interesting because its shape creates the illusion of being a submarine. Thus, the WWII, it 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 at Kastanida belonged to the Grammatikos family and appears in the catalogue of 1686. Kastanida is the quarter above Lakka that the islanders knew as the place of the stonecutters: the flagstones that paved the yards, the churches and the cisterns of Paxos came from the workings here, and for a long time cut stone was one of Read more...

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...

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...