The row of five
White cylinders in straw caps on the wind's edge.
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The Kato Mili windmills are Mykonos' signature: five white cylinders in straw caps on the hill edge above Little Venice — of sixteen that ground the Aegean's wheat for centuries (16th on) when the island was the sea roads' bread station, stopping in the early 1900s to become earth's most famous windmill row. The scene is a two-moment commodity: early morning alone with whiteness and wind — and sunset as the canvas everyone seeks: the sun dropping between the mills, Little Venice igniting below. It is a point, not an activity: fifteen photographic minutes suffice, the meaning in its place on the walk — between town and Little Venice where you pass by law. Boni's mill higher east works as a small seasonal museum for those wanting an interior.
White cylinders in straw caps on the wind's edge.
Sun between mills, Little Venice below — the mother canvas.
Kato Mili, 84600 Mykonos
Panagia ParaportianiParaportiani is Greece's most photographed church — and not one church at all: f4 minutes walk4.4
Chora — Mykonos TownChora is the perfect Cycladic maze: whiteness washing every wall each spring, bl4 minutes walk
The Archaeological Museum of MykonosMykonos' Archaeological Museum (1902) was built for one treasure: the necropolis9 minutes walk4.2Two angles: from below the hill on the Little Venice side (mills crowning houses and sea) — and from the hill itself at sunset, sun between them. Morning for the first, empty; dusk for the second, with crowd patience.