Not to miss

Lefkes

Lefkes is the island's highest and loveliest village. It boasts the Agias Trias Cathedral, an impressive building whose entrance is shaded by olive trees. But the village's real charm is the serenity of its pristine alleyways and buildings. Lefkes clings to a natural amphitheatre amid hills whose summits are dotted with old windmills.

Panagia Ekatontapyliani

Dating from AD 326, this is one of the most splendid churches in the Cyclades. The building consists of three churches: Agios Nikolaos, with superb columns of marble and a carved iconostasis; the Church of Our Lady and the Baptistry. The name means Our Lady of the Hundred Gates, but this is a wishful rounding up of a still-impressive tally of doorways.

Archaeological Museum

Here you can see a fragment of the 4th-century Parian Chronicle, listing the most outstanding artistic achievements of ancient Greece. Discovered in the 17th century, most of it ended up in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Typically, some of the most exquisite pieces are only plaster casts - the originals having long since been 'displaced' to museums abroad.