Qualla: Paxos https://qualla.com/paxos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:34:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/r/paxos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Paxos https://qualla.com/paxos Paxos: Introduction https://qualla.com/paxos/ Photo credit Pitichinaccio, CC BY 3.0. In Greek mythology, Poseidon struck Corfu with his trident so that he and Amphitrite could have somewhere quiet. The splinter that broke off became Paxos. That image — the god of the sea choosing this place for peace — captures the spirit of the island better than any travel brochure. Paxos is only 10 kilometres long and 3 wide, the smallest of the seven main Ionian Islands, but its landscape feels improbably lush: an unbroken canopy of ancient olive groves rolling from the harbour at Lakka in the north to the capital Gaios in the south, where small islets guard the entrance to the lagoon-like port.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/r/paxos-wp/sqyr-paxos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Paxos: The Groves and the Cliffs https://qualla.com/paxos/ Photo credit Annatsach, CC BY-SA 4.0. Much of Paxos is dressed in olive trees, some of them centuries old, their silver-green foliage catching light that is distinct in the Ionian — brighter, somehow, than the Aegean. The eastern coast is gentle: three small harbour villages, Gaios, Lakka, and Loggos, each with brigh...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/r/paxos-wp/sqyr-paxos-the-groves-and-the-cliffs.mp3 0:06 2 full Paxos: Layers of Conquest https://qualla.com/paxos/ Photo credit Pitichinaccio, Public domain. Few islands this small carry so much history. Phoenicians are said to have been the first settlers. In 229 BC, during the First Illyrian War, a battle was fought in these waters between Greek and Illyrian fleets, recorded by the historian Polybius. Rome came next, then pirates in...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/r/paxos-wp/sqyr-paxos-layers-of-conquest.mp3 0:06 3 full Paxos: Visitors and Inhabitants https://qualla.com/paxos/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY 3.0. Tourism replaced olive oil, soap, and fishing as the main industry from the mid-1960s onward, and Paxos became particularly well-known among British visitors. Among its semi-permanent British residents were actor Peter Bull, who wrote a memoir called It Isn't All Greek to Me, and...

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/q/y/r/paxos-wp/sqyr-paxos-visitors-and-inhabitants.mp3 0:06 4 full Paxos: The Quiet That Poseidon Sought https://qualla.com/paxos/ Photo credit Sakis Kostaris, CC BY-SA 3.0. Today Paxos has around 2,500 permanent residents. There are no airports: the island is reachable only by sea, which keeps it at a pace the myth prescribed. Gaios, the capital, is a small town of Venetian-influenced architecture, with a square by the waterfront and a museum of loc...

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