Mykonos is a Greek island that offers beautiful beaches, intense nightlife, lovely whitewashed buildings, picturesque narrow streets and a taste of old world Greece mixed with a cosmopolitan feeling.

Greek mythology places the island as the spot where Zeus battled a series of large giants, aided in his plight by Hercules and Poseidon. The island’s name supposedly is derived from Mykons, who was a grandson of Apollo.
Possibly the first inhabitants of Mykonos Island were Carians, Egyptians and Cretans. It followed the arrival of Ionians under the leadership of Hippocles.
Little is known about Mykonos during ancient times but, by coin depictions, we are able to presume that Dionyssos was the island’s patron god.During the Byzantine times Mykonos Island was initially subject to the province of islands and later to the theme of Aegean.
By 1207 it was under the occupation of the Venetian brothers Andrea and Jeremiah Ghizis while in 1292 was ravaged by Catalans. A century later, Mykonos was conceded to Venice by its last ruler, Georgios Ghizis. The island was totally destroyed and practically deserted in 1537 by Khaired-Din Barbarossa.
The Venetians conquered Mykonos in 1207 and by Turks in 1537 Mykono's fleet energetically took part in the 1821 Revolution in which the figure of Manto Mavrogenous stood out. In October 1822, the Turks undertook a landing on the island, but the Mykonians under their heroic woman leader, Manto Mavroyenous, successfully repulsed it. After liberation (1830) Mykonos managed to re-establish its commercial fleet but the after coming dominance of the steamship resulted in the gradual constriction of their shipping activities by the end of the past century.
During the period between World War I and World War II, tourism made its first appearance.
From the mid-50s on the island has been gradually transformed into an important tourist, cosmopolitan and artistic centre.