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Parikia - the best of Greece

Per Nørgaard

Parikia is a charming town with sidewalk restaurants, cafés, shops, and ticket offices lined up along the street facing the harbor. Further into the town, there's a maze of narrow streets filled with small tourist shops displaying their goods—sunglasses, bags, straw hats, caps, fashion clothing, jewelry, and souvenirs. The residential houses, built in a neoclassical style, are bright white with doors and window frames painted in vibrant blue. Balconies hang over the streets, and bougainvillea defy the laws of nature, delivering a color show in the dry concrete landscape. Cats lounge lazily in the shade. We walk on polished streets where the joints between each stone slab are hand-painted in white. Outside a residence, we find a ring from an ancient temple column used as a table, and elsewhere we see a marble bench that is likely a foundation from an important ancient building, perhaps a sanctuary. As we move uphill in the town, we come to the Frankish Castle from 1260, built with remains from a 5th-century BC temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. A stroll through Parikia, like in many other Cycladic towns, is a journey through both past and present. Greece at its best, in other words.



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