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The luminous Paros, like a picture in the Aegean Sea, waits for you to get you drunk with the beauty of its deep blue waters, its dry stone walls, and the simple lines of its mountains, carrying you along in a travel through its picturesque paved alleys, its churches and the magic that springs out of the place.
This dreamy island is located in a distance of only 55 minutes from Athens airport. However, there are many charter flights from abroad.
Yet, if you prefer the sweet smell of the sea and the company of dolphins, then you can travel by ship that departs from Piraeus and it only takes 5.5 hours or you can take the modern boats, reducing the time of the distance in 3 hours.
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Also, you can depart from the ports of Rafina, Thessalonica, Iraklio of Crete and from the rest of Cyclades, the Dodecanese, and the islands of the estern Aegean Sea.
Whichever way you choose to travel, the sight of the historical Parikia or Paros where the blue and the white of the houses are joined together in a wonderful combination, will reward you at once, for your choice. The circular roads, the wide whitewashed steps and the sense of bougainvilleas in your hair as you pass through the arches of the yards, create un unrivalled magic that doesn't exist anywhere else.
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The Aegean architecture is visible in squares and in small alleys, giving to Paros a unique picture. The inhabitants of Paros are open-hearted and hospitable - they have perfectly combined the life and their history with the past in a harmonious structure.
Their houses - and those that they rent to the visitors, are characterized by simple forms with a particular emphasis to functionalism.
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Its ceilings are wooden and low and the store rooms are small but practical while their ruling element is the cool yards and the verandas which let the eye wander unconcerned in the scenery.
The picturesque cobbled roads of Paros, make you explore them and guide you to small villages that look like they have been taken out from fairy-tales, like the village of Lefkes with the imposing church of Agia Triada and the Folklore Museum, the village of Kostas with its Cycladic churches and Marpissa, the village with the white houses - samples of the Cycladic architecture - the astonising sandy beach of the bay and Pisso Livadi that is full of life and fun.
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Paros is an island with great history that can only be understood with a visit to the Archaeological Museum with unique exhibits like "Niki" of Samothrace and many other exhibits of rare value, characteristics of the first-cycladic and Mycenaean civilization. If you pass from the famous port of Naoussa you'll feel that you are in another century.
Its medieval castle, its small fishing boats and the islet of Agia Kali in the bay of Naoussa take you to past ages that exist only in books.
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