Paralia Kalo Livadi
Sandy valley-mouth beach framed by a lone whitewashed chapel facing the open sea.
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This guide to Paralia Kalo Livadi in Mykonos starts with the small whitewashed chapel standing alone at the edge of the sand and the kind of bargain that built it: a tama, a vow made mid-storm by a sailor or fisherman promising a saint a chapel if he survived. It explains why that custom left an island only about eighty-five square kilometers scattered with something like six hundred to eight hundred churches and chapels. You'll hear how families still return to open these tiny buildings once a year, on the saint's name day, keeping old promises alive. Look at the chapel facing the water and consider what debt it was built to repay.
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