Mykonos is an island in the heart of the Cyclades, Greece. The archaeological site of Delos, on the nearby island of Delos in the same municipality, is mapped as a separate place, not as part of Mykonos.
Country
Greece
Type
Island
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Nearby places worth a day out from here.
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After dark
What the evenings are like, and where to spend them.
Family travel
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When to go
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Common tourist traps and how to avoid them.
Money & budgeting
Budgets, payments and everyday prices.
Transport
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Local expectations, religion and visitor etiquette.
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Worth the drive
Distances are straight-line, not driving time — mountain roads in this region are often twice as long as the map suggests.
Archaeological site · South Aegean
The archaeological site of Delos covers the small island of Delos in the Cyclades, mythical birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, and includes its archaeological museum; Hellenic Heritage says it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990.
Archaeological site · Naxos town (Chora), South Aegean
The Portara is the standing marble gateway of an unfinished temple of Apollo begun in 530 BC on the islet of Palatia at the entrance to Naxos harbour; this record is the temple site and its gate.
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Santorini, Mykonos, Crete and Corfu are four very different kinds of place, and XTOUR records each differently: two islands, two cities on Crete and one town on Corfu. This guide compares what XTOUR maps on each, what Greece's official tourism and heritage pages say about them, and where a site lies outside the destination it is planned from.
Delos is a small island in the Cyclades, home to fewer than 25 people today, where Greek myth placed the birth of Apollo and Artemis; Hellenic Heritage presents it as an archaeological site and museum under one ticket. It is reached by boat from Mykonos, which is why XTOUR treats Mykonos as its base and never as the place that contains it.
XTOUR plans Greece around towns and islands rather than regions: Athens, Thessaloniki, Kalambaka, Delphi, Nafplio, Ioannina, Heraklion, Chania, Santorini, Mykonos, Rhodes and Corfu Town. This guide says what each base is for, which sites are reached from a base rather than inside it, and which XTOUR guide takes over for each of them.
Greece has 121 food names registered as PDO or PGI in the EU register, from Feta and Kalamata olives to Santorini fava and Chios mastic, and 15 protected spirit names, Ouzo among them. This guide explains what the labels require, what the register's own documents say about the best-known names, and which dishes Greece's tourism board lists for each island group.
The Greek National Tourism Organisation sorts the islands into eight groups, from the Argosaronic islands off Athens to Crete, and lists which islands belong to each. This explainer sets out those lists, where the groups overlap or disagree with Greece's administrative regions, and which XTOUR destinations sit in which group.
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