Cycladic & Curiosity
Anafiotika
Cycladic micro-hamlet on the rock — whitewashed houses, no restaurants, five-minute detour
Anafiotika is the Cycladic hamlet tucked into the upper rock of Plaka — whitewashed houses, blue shutters, the geometry of a Naxos village glued to the side of the Acropolis. The builders who came from Anafi in the 1860s to construct King Otto's palace built their own houses here in the form they knew; the result is a fifty-house micro-quarter where the Athens of the postcard meets the Athens of the working stonemason. There are no restaurants in Anafiotika proper — the gezgin uses it as a five-minute detour off the upper Plaka walk, a structural curiosity the chapter notes for context rather than for reservations.
Highlights
Whitewashed Naxos-style houses Anafi-stonemason origin (1860s) Five-minute detour off upper Plaka View north over the Acropolis rock
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