LOCATION
THE LOCATION
Marathi, one of Paros's best-kept secrets.
Marathi is one of Paros’s best-kept secrets. Just 5 kilometres from the port of Parikia, yet a world apart from it — a quiet inland village of scattered stone houses, ancient olive trees, and vineyards that have been tended for generations. The landscape here moves at its own pace, unhurried in a way the island’s busier corners rarely manage.
The village sits at the edge of Paros’s ancient marble quarries — the same quarries that yielded the stone for the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and the Hermes of Praxiteles. The history here is quiet, embedded in the hillside, adding depth to a place that needs no embellishment.
Marathi is one of Paros’s best-kept secrets. Just 5 kilometres from the port of Parikia, yet a world apart from it — a quiet inland village of scattered stone houses, ancient olive trees, and vineyards that have been tended for generations. The landscape here moves at its own pace, unhurried in a way the island’s busier corners rarely manage.
The village sits at the edge of Paros’s ancient marble quarries — the same quarries that yielded the stone for the Venus de Milo, the Winged Victory of Samothrace, and the Hermes of Praxiteles. The history here is quiet, embedded in the hillside, adding depth to a place that needs no embellishment.
Some places you visit. Others stay with you.
WHY PAROS
The island has kept something of itself intact.
Paros holds a rare balance in the Cyclades: a cosmopolitan edge excellent restaurants, a lively port in Naoussa, some of the Aegean’s finest beaches — alongside an ease that still feels genuinely Greek. The island has kept something of itself intact.
From Plastires Villas, it unfolds in every direction. The sculpted granite coves of Kolymbithres. The marble-paved alleys of Naoussa’s old harbour. The hilltop whitewash of Lefkes. And across a narrow strait, Antiparos reachable in minutes, quiet by nature.
DISTANCES
PLACES
- Port of Parikia
- Paros Airport
- Kolymbithres beach
- Parasporos beach
- Santa Maria beach
- Golden beach
- Naousa village
- Parikia town
- Lefkes village
- Antiparos ferry
- Ancient Quarries
- 5 km · ~10 min
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- Walking distance