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Whitewashed houses climbing the hill below the kastro in Plaka, Milos.
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Plaka

The Verdict

Stay up in Plaka rather than down at the port. It is where Milos looks and behaves like the island everyone hopes it is.

Why go

Plaka climbs to a Venetian kastro with a chapel and a view over the whole caldera-shaped bay, and the lanes between the houses are the quietest place to be after dark. It is five minutes from the island's best sunset and ten minutes from the beaches on the north coast. Adamas has the ferries and the restaurants; Plaka has the island.

Trip role
Base
Time needed
3-4 nights
Best for
Couples · Villages · Views · Quiet
Skip if
you are here for one night and have an early ferry · you want to walk to a beach
Best months
May, June, September
Crowd reality
Moderate
Car needed
Car Helpful
Airport access
Milos Airport (MLO), 10 min from Plaka
Ferry relevance
Adamas is the ferry port, 4 km below Plaka; ferries to Piraeus and the western Cyclades.

Understand the place

The hilltop capital of Milos, above the port at Adamas, with the island's best sunset and its best lanes.

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