Mykonos Harbour View
Crescent-shaped harbor wall extended in stages since the seventeenth century to hold a growing fleet.
This guide to the Mykonos Harbour View walks through more than three centuries of visitors trying to capture a harbor that locals had never formally built, starting with an anonymous Frenchman's rough sketch of the bay in 1686 and followed by surveys from a French botanist and an English traveler decades apart. It follows the trade that eventually forced the town's hand, as the number of ships crowding the water grew from a couple dozen to as many as sixty in a single season, more than the open shoreline could hold. A local named Mihalis Kampanas gets the credit for widening the seafront in 1901, turning a rough natural landing into an actual structure.
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