The Tinos strait
The deep blue whose wreck birthed the tower.
Pimi 69110 โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Francesco Fallica โ CC BY-SA 2.5 ยท Mateus Pabst โ CC BY 2.0 ยท w_lemay โ CC BY-SA 2.0
The windmills are the poster sunset, architecture and crowd โ Armenistis the sea sunset, bare and empty. The icon shot there, the stillness here โ a car takes both: Armenistis for the sun, then Chora for dinner.
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Armenistis has guarded Mykonos' northwestern head since 1891: a 19-metre tower the Greeks raised after an English steamer sank in the strait โ its original French mechanism won a Paris World's Fair prize before installation, and shows today in Chora's Aegean Maritime Museum. The site is its reward: a high wind cliff facing Tinos across the blue strait โ a 180-degree open sunset without one building in frame, its audience a few cars that know the road. The tower is shut and the whole scene yours. Fifteen minutes' drive from Chora via Agios Stefanos โ the last stretch short dirt any car manages gently. Take a layer even in summer: the cape wind is serious, and it is the place's secret and its emptiness at once.
The deep blue whose wreck birthed the tower.
Its prize lens shown in Chora's maritime museum.
Faros Armenistis, 84600 Mykonos