According to mythology, Mykonos was formed by the petrified bodies of the giants that Hercules killed. Later, the island was named after the hero Mykono.

The first inhabitants of the island were Phoenicians and Cretans but later Iones came from Athens in the 9th century BC.

As typical of the Greek Isles, Mykonos is filled with maze of narrow white-wash streets, filled with shops, bars and restaurants on both sides. A very lovely, quaint town.

According to mythology, Leto, pursued by Hera, found refuge on a floating rocky island, which Poseidon then anchored to the sea bottom with pillars of granite. Here, Leto bore to Zeus the twins Apollo and Artemis.

Delos is the most important archaeological site in the Cyclades. It's a place of such importance that the surrounding islands were known as the Cyclades since it was thought that they lay in a circle round the island on which Apollo was born.

During Hellenistic times, Delos became one of the 3 most important religious center in Greece and a flourishing center of commerce, trading through the Mediterranean and was populated with wealthy merchants mariners and bankers from as far away as Egypt and Syria. These inhabitants built temples to various gods but Apollo remained the principal deity on the island.