Agios Dimitrios at Dalietatika is listed in 1781. Its foundations were laid in 1750 and work was still going on in 1777: twenty-seven years of building, which for a hamlet church was normal rather than slow: these were put up out of what was left over after the harvest. The church belongs to the Dalietos and Argyros families, together with Read more...

At the northern tip of Paxos, above the sheer cliffs that look across to Corfu, stands one of the most historic lighthouses of the Ionian. The first light was lit here in 1825, under British protection, burning olive oil behind fixed parabolic mirrors, and it guided ships through the channel between southern Corfu and Paxos. Its mechanism was improved twice, Read more...

Planos lies behind the lighthouse headland of Lakka, on the northern tip of the island, and it has a date attached to it that no other beach on Paxos can claim. When the British took the Ionian islands, their troops came ashore here. The account written in 1885 says it plainly: when the English occupied Paxos they landed at the Read more...

Agios Ioannis at Pialouches, in the district of Lakka, belongs to the Grammatikos, Petros, Aronis, Argyros and Basilas families. It appears in the list of 1805 and was built before 1750. Five family names on one small church is unusual even for Paxos, and it says something about how these buildings were held: shares in a church passed down like Read more...