Paralia Agios Ioannis
Quiet crescent of sand facing Delos, made famous as the film set of a runaway housewife's Greek romance.
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This guide to Paralia Agios Ioannis in Mykonos follows the 1989 film that turned this quiet crescent of sand into a pilgrimage site: a fifty-something Liverpool housewife named Shirley Valentine, who walks out on her marriage and takes a job pouring wine at a taverna just behind the beach. It traces her affair with the taverna's Greek owner, Pauline Collins's Oscar-nominated performance, and how that beachside taverna still stands today, rebuilt under a new name. Look across the water at Delos and Rinia, the same view the cameras framed here in 1989.
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