Ελληνικά | Français We currently have 152 members in good standing.The average contribution is € 45. This average is on the rise. We can do better.Once again, it is worth emphasizing the importance of receiving the contributions at the beginning of the school year – the budget year of the FoP goes from 1 September […]
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8/8 / Annual Ceremony / Ετήσια Τελετή / Cérémonie Annuelle
Ελληνικά παρακάτω – Français plus bas δείτε φωτογραφίες και λόγος καλωσορίσματος παρακάτω | voir photos et mot d’accueil ci-dessous On August 8, the annual ceremony of the Friends of Paros will be held at the Environmental & Cultural Park of Paros, near Naoussa, at 8 pm.This annual event of our association aims to honour voluntary […]
Ημερολόγιο | Calendar | Calendrier
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Les Amis de Paros, 18 ans après
Notre association a été créée en 2001 par 11 personne, habitants permanents ou occasionnels de notre île. Dans la perspective de la tenue de notre assemblée générale du mois d’août de cette année, quel pourrait être notre bilan, voire ses limites? La première action à porter à notre crédit est d’avoir fait collaborer les habitants […]
Friends of Paros, 18 years later
Our association was created in 2001 by 11 people, permanent and occasional inhabitants of our island. In view of the holding of our General Meeting in August of this year, how our achievements could be assessed and which are their limits ? The first action to bear to our credit is to have the permanent […]
Sustainable cultural heritage
It is especially hoped that the conservation and valorisation of the local cultural heritage would help to reorient the fast growing tourism sector away from mass and impersonal tourism, and towards the discerning visitor who appreciates the cultural heritage and special character of the island. However, this presents a largely underappreciated challenge regarding the sustainability […]
My Zero Waste Lifestyle – Before and After
A few years ago, I would have said my lifestyle was ecologically responsible. I was recycling, using what I thought were biodegradable bags
Capetaneïka
COSTAS GOUZELIS Why this man? Because he was and still is today a source of inspiration. His great love was the sea and the handicrafted wooden boats. This is what we honour and celebrate every third weekend of September. The people who have believed in the project have paved the way, Spyros Mitrogiannis, Dimitris Kourtellis, […]
The Environmental & Cultural Park of Paros
Paros Park is based on volunteerism, and welcomes visitors year-round for a variety of environmental, cultural and sport activities or just for a walk or a swim in this natural place.
Sea and Rock
On Cyclades there is an absolute beauty. A beauty that is completely simple. Centuries of hard work on this barren landscape and the endeavor to survive with the faintest means, has carved that what one admires today in the Cycladic islands. A hard and plain life with solely way out to the world the sea… […]
Φωτογραφικό οδοιπορικό της Πάρου
Η Πάρος αλλιώςαπό τον Πέτρο Τσουνάκη
Melissi Delicatessen (en)
A honey cellar and not only! If someone asked me to only get a product that reminds me of Paros, it would certainly be a vase of local aromatic thyme honey. This is what the owner of Delicatessen Melissi was thinking in Naoussa and she had built a very special honey cellar with apicultural products […]
Ar n’ So crepes etc. (en)
Arietta and Sofia decided to combine local flavors with french cuisine !
Α french sculptor in Paros
Daniel VERSTRAETE is a selftaught artist who practices direct carving mainly on marble blocks of the island of Paros in his workshop located in Aspro Chorio. He creates shapes that make up a strange imaginary powerful bestiary and draws bronzes from some of these marble blocks whose patinas exalt the work of the material. He […]
Kakavia (en)
Kakavia is the fisherman’s dish. At any time, wherever they are, they have everything they need to prepare it. They use the “second choice” fish, which they could not sell, along with crackers that soaked them in thick broth. They always added to the water where the kakavia was boiled a little sea water for […]
Editorial – Issue 19
Rewarding volunteering for the benefit of all The Board of Directors of the Friends of Paros in its meeting on March 6, 2019, after consulting all its members, has decided to award the annual distinction of our association to two major citizen initiatives: The Kapetaneïka and the Paros Festival. These two actions reflect an effort […]
Changing course towards sustainable tourism
So far, the majority of tourism stakeholders in Paros are accustomed to measuring tourism performance in terms of visitor numbers, ignoring other indicators. And yet tourism, due to its massification, is globally in a phase of unprecedented change and the motto is clear: “either we change or we sink”! The numbers themselves are revealing: according […]
The Sanctuary of Apollo, revived
2019 started very actively for Yannos Kourayos and the team of Despotiko. At the beginning of January, the excavator presented the progress of the excavations and the restoration program at the International Conference of the American Institute of Archeology in San Diego, CA. The lecture – coauthored by Kourayos’ closest associate, Ilia Daifa, the architect […]
Presentation of the monasteries
In the fifth and last chapter we continue, dear reader, with the presentation of the monasteries of our beloved island. After the monastic sites near Parikia, Naoussa and Lefkes come those those of Marmara and Aggeria. We recall that the first chapter concerned the symbols and traditions of Orthodoxy and the second chapter the presentation […]
Antique Paros by Patricia
Comme déjà évoqué dans le Bulletin, Paros attire de nouveaux entrepreneurs, parfois venus de l’étranger. Les Amis de Paros considèrent que c’est une chose positive pour l’île qui attire ainsi de nouveaux talents. C’est le cas de Patricia Rikh, venue de Suisse, mais de nationalité italienne et suisse, qui après bien d’autres, a décidé en […]