Must-see shopping in Naxos

  • Nikos Art

    Naxos

    This wonderful ceramics shop in Apollonas, just up from the seafront tavernas, features beautiful vases – some traditional, some rather more abstract –…

  • Antico Veneziano

    Hora (Naxos)

    Inside the kastro, this remarkable antique shop hides inside a restored 800-year-old Venetian mansion. Even if you're not a collector who'll salivate at…

  • Octopus Naxos

    Hora (Naxos)

    If you're looking for something uniquely Naxian, you could do worse than these colourful T-shirts, designed in Naxos since 1988. The octopus appears in…

  • Penelope

    Naxos

    The know-how has been passed down to Penelope through at least four generations – one of two such families of weavers in Halki – and her fingers and feet…

  • Apiranthos Art

    Naxos

    Gun-metal amphorae with a twinkle of mica line the street by this ceramics shop on the main pedestrian drag. They are locally made, as are the beautiful…

  • Tziblakis Local Products of Naxos

    Hora (Naxos)

    The pungent aromas will bowl you over as soon as you get through the door of this colourful wonderland, a family store dating from 1938. It’s where locals…

  • Kohili Jewels

    Hora (Naxos)

    Hidden in the maze of small streets behind the waterfront, this is a good spot to purchase jewellery made from the Eye of Naxos, the hard shell that…

  • Papyrus

    Hora (Naxos)

    What began as a box of books left by a traveller has turned into a shockingly organised collection of over 10,000 secondhand books, covering multiple…

  • Zoom

    Hora (Naxos)

    A large, well-stocked newsagent and bookshop that has most international newspapers the day after publication and perhaps the best collection of postcards…

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