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  • Agios Ioannis stands on the islet of Agios Nikolaos, opposite Gaios, and belongs to the Kourniachtis and Vellianitis families. It is included in the list of 1805.

    Two churches on one small rock, inside a Venetian fortress, is a good measure of how the island worked: the families who owned land also owned churches, and where they had interests they built.

    The islet is visited by boat from Gaios.

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      The castle of St. Nicholas

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      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...
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      Melisi Beach

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      Melisi is just outside Gaios, under the long slope that falls from the old fortress on the islet of Agios Nikolaos. The 1885 survey of the harbour calls the point here the cape of Melissi and the shore below it the spiantsa sto Melissi, spiantsa being the local word for a beach of rounded stones. Two things were noted here Read more...
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      Agios Spiridon (Gaios)

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      A small church on the rocks at the northern edge of Gaios, by the old quarantine station. A visitor in the 1880s called it the most picturesque thing on that shore: set directly on the rock, with a portico of four columns and wall paintings on the iconostasis. It is a private chapel of the Kouvas family, and it is Read more...
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      The old English Governorate

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      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...
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      St. Nicholas (island)

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      Agios Nikolaos gives his name to the islet that closes the harbour of Gaios. The church is a dependency of the Panagia of the Vellianites and appears in the catalogue of 1686, so it already stood when the Venetian castle above it was still in use. It sits at the southern end of the islet, inside the walls. Its stone Read more...
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      The monastery of Panagia

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      The monastery of the Panagia stands on the small island at the mouth of Gaios harbour. Everyone on Paxos calls it simply the Madonna. The present church appears to have been built over an early Christian one. The catalogue of 1686 records it as old and ruined; it was probably restored by the Vellianitis family, and in 1720 it became Read more...
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