Experience the wonderfully all-round island of Paros

With Naxos to the east and Mykonos to the north, Paros has long occupied an enviable position in the Cyclades. It is also a place of rare versatility. The island shifts effortlessly between registers: working harbours, farmland, wind-beaten beaches, and a deliberate kind of hospitality. That looseness, and the sense that it still belongs first to itself, is what makes visitors reluctant to look elsewhere once they’ve discovered it.

Ceramic artist Christiane Smit, who has lived on the island for nearly two decades and runs the guesthouse Moonhouse (a ten-minute drive from the Port of Parikia), points to a growing international community of artists, designers and independent makers: ‘What I find special is that many of them don’t come just for summer – they stay through winter and buy houses here, to live and create.’

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