Mykonos is a Greek island of the Cyclades, located in the vicinity of Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. It has an area of 96 km² and its highest point reaches 341 m above sea level. At the 2001 census it had 9,320 inhabitants, mostly residing in the town of Mykonos (also known as Chora), which lies on the west coast.

From an administrative point of view, the island is part of the southern Aegean periphery and consists of the only municipality of Mykonos, whose territory also extends to the nearby islands of Delos, Rineia as well as numerous uninhabited islets, for a total of 105.2 km² of area.

History:

According to Herodotus the Isola sarebbe stata sede di tribù carie^[7] nel Neolitico. Tradition refers to populations of the lelegi and then of Egyptians, Phoenicians and Cretans. Archaeological remains indicate that the island was inhabited by ancient Ionian peoples as early as the early part of the 11th century BC. In the final phase of the Persian Wars (478-477 BC), Mykonos became part of the Delian League.

The construction of the agglomeration of churches of the Panaghía Paraportiani dates back to this period, then continued until the 17th century. Conquered in 1537 by the corsair Khayr al-Din Barbarossa, its territory was then subjugated by the Turks until the revolution of 1821, in which the Myconians distinguished themselves as protagonists of the struggles for Greek independence (in particular the heroine Manto Mavrogenous, according to some native historians of the island).

Despite the liberation, the mercantile activity of the island suffered a rapid decline from the second half of the 19th century, especially after the opening of the Corinth Canal in 1904, favoring emigration and the consequent progressive depopulation^…, braked only in the fifties from the growth of that tourist interest, first for Delos and then also for Mykonos, which over time has become its main source of economic development.