Chora’s mansions are perhaps the oldest type of city dwellings in the Cyclades, belonging to wealthy traders. Their main characteristics were the large rooms, the high ceilings, thick stone walls and  ...

Naxos's folk houses were the most widespread type of residence. In their simplest, earliest form they comprised a single, large room for living and storing goods.Subsequent forms included separate roo ...

Most of Naxos’s tower houses were built by the Venetians around 1600, for protection from pirates and for establishing their authority on the local population. Some 30 such tower houses are saved toda ...