Myconos An island with very little vegetation, it has an area of 85 sq. km., a shoreline of 80 km and a population of 5,500. Cosmopolitan island, famous the last decades from the international jet set visitors that spend here their holidays. Mykonos beaches are magnificent, the nightlife surprising and Delos a couple of miles away (this is probably the reason that brought tourism on the island in the first place). The trip by ferry from Piraeus takes about 6 hours. In summer there is 'flying doplhin' service from Piraues or Rafina. A local boat service takes visitors from Mykonos to nearby Delos.lies almost in the center of the Cyclades islands (Cyclades means the circle islands, because they form a circle around Delos). Along the whitewashed streets stand brilliant white box-shaped houses with stepped walls for sitting on, wooden doors and windows and brightly-coloured balconies. These are interspersed with small but impressive churches, pretty little tavernas and shops selling souvenirs and other goods, and the overall sense is of being inside a film set. On the low Kastro hill is the complex of churches known collectively as Our Lady 'Paraportiani', a superb arrangement of whitewashed masses created over the centuries and now recognised as a national cultural monument.The closests islands are Delos, Serifos and Sifnos to the SW, Tinos and Andros to the North, Paros and Naxos to the South, Syros to the West and Ikaria to the East.Mykonos is connected to Piraeus, Thessaloniki, Crete, Rhodes, Kos and all the major Cyclades islands (Santorini, Paros, Naxos, Ios, Sifnos, Milos, Syros) by boat and Athens and many countries direct by plane.It is no coincidence that this, the most cosmopolitan of all Greek islands, attracts so many visitors from all over the globe, including large numbers of artists and intellectuals.Here, the steep mountains to be encountered in most of the Cyclades give way to low, rocky hills which combine with superb beaches to make up the landscape of the island. The capital, Hora, with its colourful harbour in which little fishing-boats nestle happily side by side with luxury yachts, presents quite a different picture from the majority of Aegean island towns. While it is usual for island villages to be built on naturally amphitheatrical sites, Mykonos is spread out over a flat area and conveys an impression of solid aesthetic cohesion.The island can be reached by air from Athens (daily service from Athens airport and more than ten flights a day during peak periods), Rhodes, Santorini and Herakleion (Crete) or by ferry from Piraeus (94 nautical miles), Rafina (71 nautical miles), the Dodecanese, Crete, and Thessaloniki.