6 Best Performing Arts in The Cyclades, Greece

Bazeos Tower

This 17th-century stonework tower, considered one of Naxos's most beautiful Venetian-era monuments, dominates the landscape as you approach the center of the island by car heading from Naxos Town. It has been renovated as a museum and a cultural space where a full calendar of exhibitions, concerts, and educational seminars take place every summer.

Environmental and Cultural Park of Paros

Set on almost 800 acres of the beautiful Agios Ioannis Detis Peninsula, the Environmental and Cultural Park of Paros offers a full summer program of concerts in its outdoor theater, while Cine Enastron is an open-air movie venue for watching films under the stars.

Holland Tunnel Gallery

Paulien Lethen's Holland Tunnel Gallery has its main space in Brooklyn, New York. The Paros space, open only in summer, is set in a whitewashed town house and has a fine stable of international artists with a Paros connection.

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Ifestia

On the third weekend of every September, Santorini celebrates the volcanic eruption that changed the landscape of the island back in the second millennium BC. A series of concerts, exhibitions, and cultural events culminates in a spectacular fireworks show in the caldera, re-enacting the explosions and lava flow.

Santorini International Music Festival

Thank pianist Athena Capodistria for September's Santorini International Music Festival, which always includes internationally known musicians in a celebration of classical music

The Aegean Center for the Fine Arts

A small American arts college, the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts hosts readings, concerts, lectures, and exhibitions in its splendidly restored neoclassical mansion. Since 1966 the center has offered courses (two three-month semesters as well as intensive summer workshops) in writing, painting, art history, photography, and classical voice training.