Paros, Greece Travel Guide: Where To Stay, Eat And Shop According To Margherita Missoni

Mario, in Nassoua, turns the city’s primary sq. into its eating room. Turquoise chairs and tables sprawl out onto the stones, and at sundown, there’s not an empty seat in sight as patrons drink native wines and dine on ceviche or the grilled recent fish of the day. “It’s actually magical,” Missoni says of Mario. Her must-order dish? “The marinated zucchini salad – it was unimaginable.”

Tsachpinis, a restaurant owned by Mario’s brother that focuses on conventional Greek dishes, sits proper subsequent door. (You may distinguish the 2 by their chair colors – Tsachpinis’s are royal blue.) 

The place to Go to: Panagia Katapoliani

Whereas sure, the seashore is the principle attraction in Paros, Missoni has a further suggestion: Panagia Katapoliani. The Byzantine church, which dates again to 326 AC, was constructed even earlier than Christianity turned the state faith of the Roman Empire. “It’s probably the most miraculous church buildings in Greece,” says Missoni.

The inside is a murals: work of non secular icons, finished within the Byzantine’s signature gold color palette with flat figures, adorn the partitions. Many are lined in a riza (or, a metallic sheet meant to guard the work). Two gilded chandeliers descend from the ceiling. Votive choices dangle delicately in entrance of icons together with silver fishes, emblematic of the Aegean Island’s hardworking fishing communities.

The place to Store

Charming outlets abound in each Parikia and Nassoua. The perfect recommendation? Simply wander across the twisted, flower-lined and sun-drenched streets and see the place you end up strolling in. Missoni stopped by Retro Greco, a classic store in Parikia, to select up some old-school Paros memento T-shirts, in addition to the vintage store Moods. At Anthologist – the second outpost of Andria Mitsakos’s impeccably curated furnishings, homeware, clothes and jewelry retailer – she picked up swim trunks for her youngsters and classic matchboxes for her buddies. “They’re a cool vacation reminiscence,” she says of the memento.