Holy Church of Panagia Paraportiani
Five whitewashed chapels fused into one asymmetrical church beside a ruined Venetian castle gate.
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This guide to the Holy Church of Panagia Paraportiani in Mykonos begins with Barbarossa's fleet anchored offshore in fifteen thirty-seven, the raid that ended Venetian rule on the island. It reaches back to the Ghizi brothers, nephews of the doge of Venice, who seized Mykonos in twelve oh seven and built the fortress whose ruined gate still stands beside the church, and follows their line down to its last, heirless lord. From there it traces how islanders began raising a small chapel against that gate even as Venetian power collapsed, and how, over two centuries, one church after another was added until five whitewashed chapels fused into a single asymmetrical mass. Look closely at the walls of the ground-level chapels before you go inside.
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