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'''Paros''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|p|ɛər|ɒ|s}}; {{langx|el|Πάρος}} {{IPA|el|ˈparos|}}; {{langx|vec|Paro}}) is a Greek island in the central [[Aegean Sea]] and part of the [[Cyclades]] island group. It lies 8 kilometers (5 miles) west of [[Naxos (island)|Naxos]], separated by a narrow channel and about {{convert|150|km|0|abbr=in}} south-east of [[Piraeus]]. The [[Communities and Municipalities of Greece|Municipality]] of Paros covers about {{convert|196.308|km2|3|abbr=out}}, including numerous uninhabited offshore islets.<ref name=stat01>{{cite web |url=http://dlib.statistics.gr/Book/GRESYE_02_0101_00098%20.pdf |publisher=[[Hellenic Statistical Authority]] |title=Population & housing census 2001 (incl. area and average elevation) |language=el }}</ref> Its closest neighbor is the municipality of [[Antiparos]], located to the southwest. In [[ancient Greece]], the island was home to the city-state of [[Paros (city)|Paros]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite DARE|29024}}</ref>

Historically, Paros was known for its fine white [[marble]], which gave rise to the term ''Parian'' to describe marble or [[china (porcelain)|china]] of similar qualities.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Parian |title=Parian |work=[[The Free Dictionary]] |access-date=2009-05-06 }}</ref> Today, working marble [[quarry|quarries]] and mines (as well as abandoned ones) can be found on the island, but Paros is primarily known as a popular tourist spot.

==Geography==
Paros' geographic coordinates are 37° N. latitude, and 25° 10' E. longitude.<ref name="EB1911">{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Paros|volume=20|pages=860–861}}</ref> The area is {{convert|165|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on}}. Its greatest length from N.E. to S.W. is {{convert|21|km|0|abbr=on}}, and its greatest breadth {{convert|16|km|0|abbr=on}}.<ref name=EB1911/> The island is of a round, plump-pear shape, formed by a single mountain ({{convert|724|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}) sloping evenly down on all sides to a maritime plain, which is broadest on the north-east and south-west sides.<ref name=EB1911/> The island is composed of marble, though [[gneiss]] and mica-[[schist]] are to be found in a few places.<ref name=EB1911/> To the west of Paros lies its smaller sister island [[Antiparos]]. At its narrowest, the channel between the two islands is less than {{convert|2|km|0|abbr=on}} wide. A car-carrying shuttle-ferry operates all day (to and from Pounda, {{convert|5|km|0|abbr=on}} south of Parikia). In addition a dozen smaller islets surround Paros.

Paros has numerous beaches including [[Golden Beach, Paros|Golden Beach]] (Chrissí Aktí) near Drios on the east coast, at Pounda, Logaras, Piso Livadi, [[Naousa, Paros|Naousa Bay]], [[Paros Parikia|Parikia]] and Agia Irini. The constant strong wind in the strait between Paros and [[Naxos (island)|Naxos]] makes it a favoured [[windsurfing]] location.                                      Paros is also a popular tourist destination in the Cyclades, known for its beaches, traditional villages, and cultural events.<ref>{{cite web |title=Visit Paros – Official Tourism Portal |url=https://www.paros.gr/en/ |website=Municipality of Paros |access-date=28 September 2025}}</ref>

===Islands===
*Gaidouronisi – north of Xifara
*Portes Island – west of the town of Paros
*Tigani Island – southwest of Paros
*Drionisi – southeast of Paros

==History==

===Antiquity===
[[File:Paros Marmara tango7174.jpg|thumb|left|200px|A [[windmill]] in Marmara is of the traditional [[Cyclades]] design.]]

The story that Paros of Parrhasia colonized the island with [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]]ns<ref>[[Heraclides Ponticus|Heraclides]] ''De rebus publicis'' 8</ref> is an etymological fiction of the type that abounds in Greek legends. Ancient names of the island are said to have been Plateia (or Pactia), Demetrias, Strongyle (meaning round, due to the round shape of the island), Hyria, Hyleessa, Minoa and Cabarnis (after [[Cabarnus]]).<ref name=EB1911/><ref>Stephanos Byz.</ref>

The island later received from [[Athens]] a colony of [[Ionia]]ns<ref>Schol. [[Dionysius Periegetes]] 525; [[Herodian]] I.171</ref> under whom it attained a high degree of prosperity. It sent out colonies to [[Thasos]]<ref>[[Thucydides]] ''Peloponnesian War'' IV.104; [[Strabo]] ''Geography'' 487</ref> and [[Parium]] on the [[Hellespont]]. In the former colony, which was planned in the 15th or 18th [[Olympiad]], the poet [[Archilochus of Paros|Archilochus]],<ref>Zafeiropouloy F., and A., Agelarakis “Warriors of Paros”, Archaeology 58.1(2005): 30–35.</ref> a native of Paros, is said to have taken part. As late as 385 BC the Parians, in conjunction with [[Dionysius I of Syracuse|Dionysius of Syracuse]], founded a colony on the [[Illyria]]n island of Pharos<ref name=EB1911/> ([[Hvar]]).<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]] XV.13</ref>

Shortly before the [[Greco-Persian Wars|Persian War]], Paros seems to have been a dependency of Naxos.<ref name=EB1911/><ref>[[Herodotus]] ''Histories'' V.31</ref> In the first [[Greco-Persian War]] (490 BC), Paros sided with the Persians and sent a [[trireme]] to [[Marathon, Greece|Marathon]] to support them. In retaliation, the capital was besieged by an Athenian fleet under [[Miltiades the Younger|Miltiades]], who demanded a fine of 100 [[talent (weight)|talents]].<ref name=EB1911/> But the town offered a vigorous resistance, and the Athenians were obliged to sail away after a siege of 26 days, during which they had wasted the island.<ref name=EB1911/> It was at a temple of [[Demeter]] Thesmophoros in Paros that Miltiades received the wound from which he died.<ref name=EB1911/><ref>Herodotus  ''op.cit.'' VI.133–136</ref> By means of an inscription, [[Ludwig Ross]] was able to identify the site of the temple; it lies, as [[Herodotus]] suggests, on a low hill beyond the boundary of the town.<ref name=EB1911/>

[[File:Paros Parikia5 tango7174.jpg|thumb|Church of Zoodohos Pigi, Parikia]]

Paros also sided with [[shahanshah]] [[Xerxes I|Xerxes I of Persia]] against Greece in the second Greco-Persian War (480–479 BC), but, after the [[Battle of Artemisium]], the Parian contingent remained inactive at [[Kythnos]] as they watched the progression of events.<ref name=EB1911/><ref>Herodotus ''op.cit.'' VIII.67</ref> For their support of the Persians, the islanders were later punished by the Athenian war leader [[Themistocles]], who exacted a heavy fine.<ref name=EB1911/><ref>Herodotus ''op.cit.'' VIII.112</ref>

Under the [[Delian League]], the Athenian-dominated naval confederacy (477–404 BC), Paros paid the highest tribute of the island members: 30 ''talents'' annually, according to the estimate of Olympiodorus (429 BC).<ref name=EB1911/><ref>[[Olympiodorus of Thebes|Olympiodorus]] 88.4</ref> This implies that Paros was one of the wealthiest islands in the Aegean. Little is known about the constitution of Paros, but inscriptions seem to show that it was modeled on the [[Athenian democracy]], with a [[Boule (ancient Greece)|''boule'']] (senate) at the head of affairs.<ref name=EB1911/><ref>Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 2376–2383; Ross, Inscr. med. II.147, 148</ref> In 410 BC, Athenian general [[Theramenes]] discovered that Paros was governed by an [[oligarchy]]; he deposed the oligarchy and restored the democracy.<ref>Diodorus Siculus XIII.47</ref> Paros was included in the second Athenian confederacy (the [[Second Athenian League]] 378–355 BC). In {{Circa|357 BC}}, along with [[Chios]], it severed its connection with Athens.

From the inscription of Adule, it is understood that the Cyclades, which are presumed to include Paros, were subjected to the [[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemies]], the [[Hellenistic]] dynasty (305–30 BC) that ruled Egypt.<ref name=EB1911/> Paros then became part of the Roman Empire and later of the [[Byzantine Empire]], its Greek-speaking successor state.

===Crusades===
[[File:I Paros - Buondelmonti Cristoforo - 1420.jpg|thumb|Fifteenth century map by [[Cristoforo Buondelmonti]]]]
In 1204, the soldiers of the [[Fourth Crusade]] seized [[Constantinople]] and overthrew the Byzantine Empire. Although a residual Byzantine state known as the [[Empire of Nicaea]] survived the Crusader onslaught and eventually recovered Constantinople (1261), many of the original Byzantine territories, including Paros, were lost permanently to the crusading powers. Paros became subject to the [[Duchy of the Archipelago]], a [[fiefdom]] made up of various Aegean islands ruled by a Venetian duke as nominal [[vassal]] of a succession of crusader states. In practice, however, the duchy was always a [[client state]] of the [[Republic of Venice]].

===Ottoman era and independence===

[[File:Friedel - Manto Mavrogenous.jpg|thumb|right|140px|[[Manto Mavrogenous]]]]

In 1537, Paros was conquered by the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman Turks]] and remained under the Ottoman Empire until the [[Greek War of Independence]] (1821–1829). The Ottoman conquest of Paros resulted in atrocities committed against the public: as happened to the population in other islands during the Ottoman conquest of the Aegean islands, old men were killed; young men were made galley slaves; little boys were made [[Janissaries|janissari]]es; and the women were ordered to dance on the shore so that the conquerors could choose the most attractive for the lieutenants, enslaving around 6000 of the inhabitants of Paros for [[slavery in the Ottoman Empire]].<ref>Miller, William. The Latins in the Levant: A History of Frankish Greece (1204–1566). London: 1908. p625</ref> 

During the [[Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774)]] in 1770–1775 Naoussa Bay was the home base for the Russian Archipelago Squadron of Count [[Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov|Alexey Orlov]]. Under the [[Treaty of Constantinople (1832)]], Paros became part of the newly independent [[Kingdom of Greece (Wittelsbach)|Kingdom of Greece]], the first time the Parians had been ruled by fellow Greeks for over six centuries. At this time, Paros became the home of a heroine of the nationalist movement, [[Manto Mavrogenous]], who had both financed and fought in the war for independence. Her house, near [[Panagia Ekatontapiliani|Ekatontapiliani church]], is today a historical monument.

=== WWII and Nazi Occupation ===
During the WWII [[Axis occupation of Greece]], Paros was originally occupied by the Italians until 1943. The [[Nazism|Nazis]] then took over the island in 1944 and imposed brutal rule from the beginning.  

In 1944, during the German occupation of Paros, the island's strategic importance led to the forced construction of an airfield near the village of [[Marpissa, Paros|Marpissa]]. The project amassed over 400 forced Greek workers at one point.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Henry |first=L. deZeng IV |date=March 2015 |title=Luftwaffe Airfields 1935-45 Greece, Crete and the Dodecanese |url=https://www.ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Greece%20Crete%20and%20the%20Dodecanese.pdf}}</ref> Local resistance, aided by the Allies, sought to sabotage the project, with Nikolas Stellas, a 23-year-old partisan, emerging as a key figure. Captured by the Germans, Stellas refused to provide any names or information and was therefore publicly hanged, becoming a symbol of resistance. In retaliation, 125 Parians were condemned to execution. However, Major Georg Graf von Merenberg, the German commander, was persuaded by Abbot Philotheos Zervakos to spare them, influenced by Stellas' sacrifice and the abbot's appeal to his humanity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lively Arts - Human Interest |url=http://www.lively-arts.com/humaninterest/2012/03/closed_circle.htm#:~:text=In%201944,%20Paros%20was%20occupied,of%20Prodromos,%20Marmara%20and%20Marpissa. |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=www.lively-arts.com}}</ref>

British commandos and local partisans conducted a successful operation that led to the attack on German forces stationed there. The operation included the sabotage of German communication lines and the abduction of a key German officer. This resistance effort was part of a broader Allied strategy in the Aegean during World War II, contributing to the disruption of German military operations in the region.<ref>{{Cite web |title="Word is Vendetta" – The abduction of general Kreipe and the attack on Paros, April-May 1944. |url=https://thomasharder.dk/en/word-vendetta-abduction-general-kreipe-and-attack-paros-april-may-1944 |access-date=2024-08-26 |website=thomasharder.dk}}</ref> The airfield constructed by the Germans in Marpissa was later bombed by the British. There are no remains of it today.<ref name=":0" />

=== 21st century ===
On 26 September 2000 the ferry [[MS Express Samina]] collided with the Portes islets off the bay of Parikia, killing 82 of those on board.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greekislandhopping.com/Updates/updatepages/u_disaster.html |title=Ferry Disaster off Paros |access-date=April 1, 2011 |publisher=Greek Island Hopping |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120222458/http://greekislandhopping.com/Updates/updatepages/u_disaster.html |archive-date=January 20, 2011 }} ()</ref>

Starting in the summer of 2023, the island saw protests from locals on many beaches due to government failure to stop beach-side businesses from placing more umbrellas than permitted.<ref name=":1" /> The protests saw some success, with the Greek government toughening inspections and implementing fines for businesses who do not abide by the rules. 

==Parikia==
{{main|Parikia}}
{{wide image|Paros Panorama.png|800px|align-cap=center|Panoramic view over the bay of Parikia}}
The capital, [[Parikia]] (Greek: παροικία), situated on a bay on the north-west side of the island, occupies the site of the ancient capital Paros.<ref name=EB1911/> Parikía harbour is a major hub for [[Aegean islands]] ferries and [[catamarans]], with several sailings each day for Piraeus, the port of Athens, [[Heraklion]], the capital of [[Crete]], and other islands such as [[Naxos Island|Naxos]], [[Ios Island|Ios]], [[Mykonos]], and [[Santorini]].

[[File:EKPYL 2900.jpg|thumb|[[Panagia Ekatontapiliani]] in Parikia]]
[[File:Paros Parikia Hafen 05.jpg|thumb|Parikia, Paros]]

In Parikia town, houses are built and decorated in the traditional Cycladic style, with flat roofs, [[whitewash|whitewashed]] walls and blue-painted doors and window frames and shutters. Shadowed by luxuriant vines, and surrounded by gardens of oranges and [[pomegranate]]s,<ref name=EB1911/> the houses give the town a picturesque aspect. Above the central stretch of the seafront road, are the remains of a medieval castle, built almost entirely of the marble remains<ref name=EB1911/> of an ancient temple dedicated to [[Apollo]]. Similar traces of antiquity, in the shape of [[bas-reliefs]], inscriptions, columns, and so on, are numerous. On a hillside in the southern outskirts of Parikia on the left of the Parikia – Alyki road are the remains of a temple dedicated to [[Asclepius]]. In addition, close to the modern harbour, the remains of an ancient cemetery are visible, having been discovered recently during non-archaeological excavations.

Back from the port, around 400&nbsp;m left of Parikia's main square, is the town's principal church, the [[Panagia Ekatontapiliani]], literally meaning "church of the hundred doors". Its oldest features almost certainly predate the adoption of Christianity as the [[state religion]] of the [[Roman Empire]] in 391. It is said to have been founded by the mother of the [[Roman Emperor]] [[Constantine I|Constantine the Great]] (ruled 306&ndash;337), [[Helena of Constantinople|Saint Helen]], during her pilgrimage to the [[Holy Land]]. There are two adjoining chapels, one of very early form, and also a [[baptistery]] with a cruciform font.<ref name=EB1911/>

The [[Archaeological Museum of Paros]] is located in Parikia town,a small but interesting museum housing some of the many finds from sites in Paros. The best pieces, however, are in the [[Athens National Archaeological Museum]]. The Paros museum contains a fragment of the [[Parian Chronicle]], a remarkable chronology of ancient Greece. Inscribed in marble, its entries give time elapsed between key events from the most distant past (1500 BC) down to 264 BC.<ref>Inscriptiones Graecae XII.100 seqq.</ref>

==Other settlements==
[[File:GR-paros-naoussa-gasse-2.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Street of [[Naousa, Paros|Naousa]]]]
[[File:Lefkes (Paros) Village View.jpg|thumb|View of Lefkes village]]
[[File:ParosHuis.JPG|thumb|160px|Traditional street of Lefkes]]

On the north side of the island is the bay of [[Naoussa, Paros|Naoussa]] (Naussa, formerly Agoussa or Ausa), which provides a natural spacious harbor for boat traffic. In ancient times it was closed by a [[boom (navigational barrier)|chain or boom]]. In modern times it is experiencing great touristic development.

Another popular harbor is that of Drios on the south-east side, where the Turkish fleet used to anchor on its annual voyage through the Aegean<ref name=EB1911/> during the period of Ottoman rule over Paros (1537–1832).

The three villages of Prodromos (formerly Dragoulas), Marmara, and [[Marpissa, Paros|Marpissa]] (formerly Tsipidos), situated on an open plain on the eastern side of the island, and rich in remains of antiquity, probably occupy the site of an ancient town.<ref name=EB1911/> They are known together as the "villages of Kephalos" after the steep and lofty hill of Kephalos.<ref name=EB1911/> On this hilltop stands the monastery of ''Agios Antonios'' ([[Anthony the Great|St. Anthony]]). Around it are the ruins of a medieval castle which belonged in the late Middle Ages to the [[Venice|Venetian]] noble family of the [[Venieri]]<ref name=EB1911/> which fought a battle against the Turkish admiral [[Hayreddin Barbarossa|Barbarossa]] in 1537.

Another settlement on the island Paros is [[Lefkes, Paros|Lefkes]] ([[Λεύκες]]). Lefkes is an inland mountain village {{convert|10|km|0|abbr=on}} away from Parikia. In the late 19th century, Lefkes was the center of the municipality of [[Iria]] which belonged to the Province of Naxos until 1912. The name of the municipality Iria was one of the ancient names of Paros. [[Lefkes, Paros|Lefkes]] was the capital of the municipality Iria which included the villages Angyria or Ageria, Aliki, Aneratzia, Vounia, Kamari, Campos, Langada, Maltes, and Marathi. Iria became Lefkes Community following the law enforcement DNZ/1912 "On Municipalities". At that time, the village managed to achieve great economic development. In the 1970s many residents moved to Athens due to urbanization. However, the last few years, tourism presented to be a new source of income for the locals that led to the reconstruction of homes and landscaping to make it appealing as a tourist destination. Lefkes became part of the municipality of Paros in the [[Kapodistrias reform|Kapodistrias local government reform]]. In the latest census (2011) the population numbered 545 inhabitants.

==Marble quarries==
[[File:Parian marble quarry.JPG|thumb|The marble of the [[Venus de Milo]] is believed to have been extracted from this {{convert|100|m|ft|adj=mid|-long}} quarry.]]
[[Parian marble]], which is white and [[translucent]], with a coarse grain and a very beautiful texture, was the chief source of wealth for the island.<ref name=EB1911/> The celebrated marble quarries lie on the northern side of the mountain anciently known as Marathi (afterwards Capresso), a little below a former convent of [[St Mina]].<ref name=EB1911/> The marble, which was exported from the 6th century BC onwards, was used by [[Praxiteles]] and other ancient Greek [[sculpture|sculptors]]. It was obtained by means of subterranean quarries driven horizontally or at a descending angle into the rock.<ref name=EB1911/> The marble thus quarried by lamplight was given the name of Lychnites, Lychneus (from ''lychnos'', a lamp), or Lygdos.<ref name=EB1911/><ref>[[Pliny the Elder]] ''Historia Naturalis'' XXXVI. 5, 14; [[Plato]] ''Eryxias'', 400 D; Athenodorus V.205 f; Diodorus Siculus 2.52</ref> Several of these tunnels are still to be seen.<ref name=EB1911/> At the entrance to one of them is a bas-relief dedicated to [[Pan (mythology)|Pan]] and the [[nymph]]s.<ref name=EB1911/> Several attempts to work the marble have been made in modern times, but it has not been exported in any great quantities.<ref name=EB1911/> The major part of the remaining white marble is now state-owned and, like its [[Penteliko Mountain|Pentelic]] counterpart, is only used for archaeological restorations.

In December 1883 these quarries were visited by [[James Theodore Bent|Theodore]] and [[Mabel Bent]] during their tour of the Cyclades.<ref>“Next morning we went in a tram drawn by horses up to the quarry of marble... We were received by the engineer who took us down the quarry. We all had miners’ lamps, not very light to hold, and scrambled and slipped and crawled through the various passages up and down… At the entrance is a bas-relief of figures dedicated to the Nymphs. It is carefully covered with wood. The middle figures have been removed by someone...” Extract from ''The Travel Chronicles of Mrs J. Theodore Bent'', Vol. 1 (2006, Oxford, p.22). See also, Theodore Bent, ''The Cyclades, or Life Among the Insular Greeks'' (1885, London, pp.372 ff.).</ref>

==Notable people==
;Ancient
*[[Agoracritus]] (5th century BC), sculptor
*[[Archilochus]] (c. 680 BC–c. 645 BC), lyric poet
* [[Aristion of Paros]], sculptor of the [[Phrasikleia Kore]]
*[[Satyros]] (4th century BCE), architect and sculptor
*[[Scopas]] (c. 395–350 BC), sculptor and architect
*[[Theoctiste of Lesbos]] (9th century), hermit saint
*[[Thrasymedes]] (4th century BC), sculptor
*[[Thymaridas]] (c. 400 BC–350 BC), mathematician
;Modern
*[[Nicolò Venier]], [[Lordship of Paros|Lord of Paros]]
*[[Nurbanu Sultan]] (1525–1583), wife of [[Selim II]] and Haseki Sultan of Ottoman Empire as well as the mother of [[Murad III]] and Valide Sultan of the [[Ottoman Empire]]. She is also the daughter of [[Nicolò Venier]], Lord of Paros.
*[https://www.seilerlegacy.com/about Herbert Seiler] (1928–2008) artist, sculptor, painter<ref>https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/herbert-seiler-international-artist/1894666</ref>
*[[Vassilis Argyropoulos]] (1894–1953) actor
*[[Nicholas Mavrogenes]] (1738–1790), prince of [[Wallachia]]
*[[Athanasius Parios]] (1721/22–1813), theologian
*[[Manto Mavrogenous]] (1796–1848), heroine in the [[Greek War of Independence]]
*[[Joseph the Hesychast]] (1897-1959), monk
*[[Augoustinos Kantiotes]] (1907-2010), bishop
*[[Yiannis Parios]] (1946-), musician
*[[Yiannis Ragousis]] (1965–), politician
*[[Argiro Barbarigou|Argyro Barbarigou]] (1967-), celebrity chef 
*[[Christos Perakis]] (1973-2024), entrepreneur, founder of Zoottle, former [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] country business manager of Greece and Cyprus
*[[Stan (singer)|Stan (Stratos Antipariotis)]] (1987-), musician
*[[Christos Arianoutsos]] (1993-), footballer

==Gallery==
<gallery class="center">
File:Paros Parikia 03.jpg|Parikia, Paros with the church of Agios Konstantinos
File:Paros Parikia 09.jpg|Agia Anna in Parikia, Paros
File:Paroikia, Paros, street, 075819.jpg|A street in Parikia, Paros
File:Naoussa, Paros, 119139.jpg|Naoussa, Paros
File:GR-paros-naoussa-gasse-1.jpg|Street in Naoussa, Paros
File:Fish tavern, Naoussa, Paros, 119137.jpg|Naoussa, Paros
File:GR-paros-lefkes-kirche.jpg|Church in  Lefkes
File:Paros Lefkes2 tango7174.jpg|Lefkes, Paros, Greece.
File:Paros Andiparos Despotiko Luftbild 01.jpg|Paros, Antiparos & Despotiko islands
File:Paros-Church.jpg|Church of the 100 doors ([[Panagia Ekatontapiliani|Ekatontapyliani]]), Baptistery, Parikia
File:Paros Alyki2 tango7174.jpg|Alyki, Paros
File:Old lighthouse, Paros 143792.jpg|Old lighthouse on the island of Paros
</gallery>

==See also==
*[[Communities of the Cyclades]]
*[[Aegean Center for the Fine Arts]]
*[[Pounta, Paros, Greece|Pounta]]

==References==
;Notes
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;Sources
*Clarke ''Travels'' III (London, 1814)
*de Tournefort, J.R. ''Voyage du Levant'' I.232 seqq. (Lyon, 1717)
*[[William Martin Leake|Leake, William Martin]], ''Travels in Northern Greece'' III.84 seqq. (London, 1835)
*[https://kinglikeconcierge.com/where-to-stay-in-paros Where to stay in Paros], Thanasis Mougios (which owns "KingLIke Concierge") 

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070317185058/http://www.paros.gr/default.asp?catid=4873 Website of the municipality of Paros]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160715081802/http://www.movingpostcards.tv/paros/ Moving Postcards Paros]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160825230732/http://www.ekatontapyliani.org/index.html Church of Ekatontapyliani (Church of a Hundred Doors)]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170919050431/http://benetos-skiadas-folkartist-paros-gr.com/ Folklore Art Museum of Cycladic Civilization by Benetos Skiadas.GR]

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