Mykonos Harbour View
Crescent-shaped harbor wall extended in stages since the seventeenth century to hold a growing fleet.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the harbour in Mykonos begins with a storm in 1958 and a wounded bird that a fisherman's caique brought in, and with the joke name the fishermen gave it. Along the way you'll meet the cartographers who sketched this bay, from a Frenchman's plan in 1686 to the botanist Tournefort, and the man named Kampanas who pushed the pier out to sea in 1901. Best heard standing on the seafront, with the caiques bobbing in front of you.
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