Chora - Koumbara
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Points of Interest Along This Route
ATMs
I-Bank
The I-Bank ATM on Ios is an Alpha Bank cash machine located on Nileos Kodrou street in Ios Town, the main settlement on the island. If you need to withdraw euros before heading to a beach bar, a…
Alpha Bank
Alpha Bank operates a branch and ATM in Ios Town, located on Νήλεως Κόδρου in the 840 01 postal district. It is one of the few formal banking facilities on the island, making it a practical stop for…
Alpha Bank
Alpha Bank is one of the few banking options on Ios island, providing ATM access and basic banking services in Ios Town. Located on Νήλεως Κόδρου street, it is a practical stop for travelers who need…
Bars
The Supper Club
The Supper Club sits in the village of Ios — the whitewashed hilltop settlement known locally as Chora — and operates as a rooftop bar and tapas dining venue with panoramic views across the island…
Fun Pub
Fun Pub sits on the Main Street running through Ios Village (the Chora), and it operates as one of the more all-purpose drinking spots on an island that does not lack for options. With a 4.5-star…
Ios Club
Ios Club has been pouring cocktails on Ios since 1968, making it one of the longest-running bars in the Cyclades. Perched above Chora — the island's hilltop main town — it commands a direct view west…
Coo Bar
Coo Bar is a late-night hip-hop bar sitting inside Ios Chora, the whitewashed hilltop village that doubles as the island's main nightlife district. It opens at 10:30 PM every night of the week and…
Jar Bar
Jar Bar sits on the main square of Ios Chora — the open-air crossroads at the center of the village where the narrow Cycladic lanes meet and the evening crowd thickens after sunset. It opens every…
Beach Bars
Yialo Beach Bar
Yialo Beach Bar occupies a spot directly on Gialos Beach — the main sandy bay that sits at the foot of Ios Town (Chora) and serves as the island's primary port beach. The bar runs from morning coffee…
EREGO Beach Club & Restaurant
EREGO Beach Club & Restaurant occupies one of the more distinct positions on Ios: the tip of Koumbara Beach, where the sheltered bay on the west meets the open Aegean to the north. From a single sun…
Bamboo Ios
Bamboo Ios occupies a spot directly on Mylopotas Beach, one of the most frequented stretches of sand on Ios island. The venue operates as both a beach bar and a full-service restaurant, which means…
Churches
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas is a traditional Greek Orthodox church on the island of Ios, dedicated to one of the most venerated saints in the Orthodox calendar. The church sits at coordinates placing it in the…
Saint John
Ios is dotted with hundreds of small Orthodox chapels, and the Church of Saint John is one of them — a place of quiet religious life that reflects the spiritual rhythm running through every Greek…
Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine is a place of worship on the Cycladic island of Ios, dedicated to one of the most widely venerated saints in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. The chapel sits at coordinates placing it…
Annunciation
The Annunciation church on Ios is an Orthodox place of worship dedicated to the Evangelismos tis Theotokou — the feast commemorating the Archangel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary that she…
Saint George the Basmenos
Saint George the Basmenos is a small historic Orthodox chapel on Ios, one of the Cyclades islands roughly halfway between Naxos and Santorini. The local epithet "Basmenos" distinguishes this…
Timios Stavros
Timios Stavros — meaning "Holy Cross" in Greek — is one of the small whitewashed Orthodox chapels scattered across the island of Ios. Like dozens of similar chapels throughout the Cyclades, it exists…
Agia Trias
Agia Trias — Holy Trinity — is a small Orthodox chapel on the island of Ios in the Cyclades. Like hundreds of whitewashed chapels scattered across the Greek islands, it stands as a quiet act of…
Saint George
Saint George — known in Greek as Agios Georgios — is a place of worship on the island of Ios dedicated to one of the most widely venerated saints in the Orthodox Christian tradition. Chapels bearing…
Panagia Faneromeni
Panagia Faneromeni is a Greek Orthodox church on Ios dedicated to the Virgin Mary — the name itself means "the Revealed" or "the Apparition," a title given across Greece to churches where the Virgin…
Saint Anthony
The Saint Anthony chapel on Ios is one of the hundreds of small Orthodox shrines scattered across the Cyclades, each one marking a hilltop, a crossroads, a family plot, or a spot long considered…
Christ
Located at coordinates 36.7239°N, 25.2808°E on the island of Ios in the Cyclades, this small chapel is dedicated to Christ and forms part of the dense network of Orthodox places of worship that dots…
Saint Basil
Saint Basil — known in Greek as Agios Vasilis — is a small Orthodox church on the island of Ios in the Cyclades. Like many of the chapels scattered across this island, it sits quietly in the…
Panagia Gremniotissa
Panagia Gremniotissa is a small Orthodox chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, set on the rocky cliffs that rise above Ios Chora. The name itself signals its location — gremnos in Greek means cliff or…
Frankoklesia
Frankoklesia — the name itself is a clue. In Greek, "Franko" refers to the Frankish, Catholic, or broadly Western European presence that shaped parts of the Cyclades during the medieval period, while…
Saint Eleutherius
Saint Eleutherius is a small Orthodox church on the island of Ios in the Cyclades, dedicated to one of the early Christian martyrs venerated throughout Greece. Like many of the whitewashed chapels…
Agioi Anargyroi
Agioi Anargyroi is a traditional Orthodox church on Ios dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian, the holy unmercenary healers — known in Greek as the Anargyroi, meaning "the silverless ones" because…
Saint George
Saint George is a traditional Orthodox church on the island of Ios, one of hundreds of small whitewashed chapels that punctuate the Cycladic landscape here. Dedicated to Agios Georgios — one of the…
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas — known in Greek as Agios Nikolaos — is a traditional whitewashed Orthodox church on the island of Ios in the Cyclades. Like dozens of small chapels scattered across Ios, it follows…
Taxiarchis
Taxiarchis is a traditional Greek Orthodox church on Ios dedicated to the Taxiarchs — the archangels Michael and Gabriel — whose feast day falls on 8 November each year. Churches bearing this…
Saint Pantaleon
The church of Saint Pantaleon is one of the small, whitewashed Orthodox chapels that punctuate the Ios landscape — perched on hillsides, tucked beside footpaths, or standing quietly at the edge of a…
Saint John
Saint John is a small Orthodox church on the Cycladic island of Ios, located at coordinates 36.7238°N, 25.2831°E — a position that places it in the quieter inland or hillside terrain characteristic…
Saint Kyriaki
Saint Kyriaki is a small Orthodox chapel on the island of Ios, one of the Cyclades in the South Aegean. Like the hundreds of similar whitewashed chapels dotting the Greek island landscape, it serves…
Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew — known in Greek as Agios Andreas — is a small Orthodox church on the island of Ios in the Cyclades. Its coordinates place it at 36.7236° N, 25.2835° E, in the quieter interior or…
Panagia Kountoutiani
Panagia Kountoutiani is a small Orthodox chapel dedicated to the Panagia — the All-Holy Virgin Mary — sitting in the rural interior of Ios island. Its coordinates place it in the quieter…
Metochi
Metochi is a small religious settlement on the Greek island of Ios, sitting at coordinates that place it in the quieter interior of the island, away from the busy port town and the beaches that draw…
Saint Barbara
Saint Barbara is a small Orthodox church on Ios, one of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea. Like many of the whitewashed chapels scattered across the Greek islands, it stands as a quiet marker of…
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas — known in Greek as Agios Nikolaos — is a traditional Orthodox church on the island of Ios in the Cyclades. Like the dozens of whitewashed chapels that punctuate every ridge, cliff…
Mary
Ios is an island that wears its religious heritage quietly. Alongside the whitewashed houses and the blue-domed silhouettes that define the Cyclades, small chapels dedicated to the Virgin Mary…
Saint Charalambos
Saint Charalambos is one of the small Orthodox churches scattered across Ios, dedicated to a bishop-martyr venerated throughout the Greek Orthodox world. Like many chapels on the island, it sits…
Saint Catherine
Saint Catherine is a Greek Orthodox church on the island of Ios, one of the smaller Cycladic islands in the South Aegean. Located at coordinates placing it in the interior of the island, the church…
Saint Irene
Saint Irene is one of the small whitewashed Orthodox chapels scattered across the island of Ios, dedicated to Saint Irene, an early Christian martyr venerated throughout the Greek Orthodox tradition…
Saint Artemius
Saint Artemius is a small Orthodox church on the island of Ios in the Cyclades. Like the hundreds of whitewashed chapels scattered across the Greek islands, it stands as a quiet focal point of local…
Oikos Marinaki
Oikos Marinaki is a small place of worship on Ios, one of the Cyclades islands in the South Aegean. Its coordinates place it at approximately 36.7214°N, 25.2852°E, situating it in the quieter…
Saint Nicholas
Saint Nicholas — known in Greek as Agios Nikolaos — is a traditional Orthodox church on the island of Ios in the Cyclades. Dedicated to the patron saint of sailors, fishermen, and seafarers, its…
clubs
Sweet Irish Dream
Sweet Irish Dream is one of the bars and clubs that keeps Ios Town's nightlife reputation alive. With a 4.2-star rating from 267 reviews on Google, it draws a consistent crowd and holds its own on an…
Disco 69
Disco 69 has been operating in Ios Chora since 1979, making it one of the oldest continuously running nightclubs in the Cyclades. It sits just a few meters from the main square of Ios village — the…
Traffic Bar
Traffic Bar is one of the clubs anchoring the late-night stretch of Ios Chora, the compact hilltop village that has been synonymous with island nightlife in the Cyclades for decades. It opens at…
Lost Boys
Lost Boys is a bar in Ios Chora, the island's main town perched above the port on the western hillside. It opens every night of the week at 9 PM and closes at 2 AM — making it part of the earlier…
Hotels
Meltemi Pension
Meltemi Pension sits directly at Yialos Beach — the port-side bay of Ios — placing it at one of the most convenient addresses on the island. Ferries dock at Yialos, the main beach runs along the…
Corali Hotel Ios
Corali Hotel Ios sits directly on Gialos Beach — the long white-sand bay that curves around the port village of Ormos — placing guests within a few minutes' walk of the ferry landing, the waterfront…
Hotel Mediterraneo
Hotel Mediterraneo sits in Ios Chora, the whitewashed hilltop capital of Ios, at coordinates that place it squarely within the village itself. With a 4.8 rating across 58 Google reviews, it ranks…
Hotel Acteon
Hotel Acteon stands at the port of Ios — locally called Yialos — putting guests within a five-minute walk of the beach and a fifteen-minute uphill walk from the hilltop village of Chora. The location…
Floivos Hotel
Floivos Hotel is a lodging option on Ios, one of the smaller Cycladic islands in the South Aegean, positioned between Paros and Santorini. The hotel sits at coordinates that place it in the general…
Hotel Mare Monte
Hotel Mare Monte occupies a beachfront position on Yialos Beach, the broad sandy bay that opens up just beyond Ios Town's main port. With 29 rooms, studios, and apartments, it operates as a mid-size…
Avra Pension
Avra Pension sits directly at Yalos, the port neighbourhood of Ios, roughly 50 metres from the small marina and immediately adjacent to Yalos beach. It is a family-run property that has accumulated a…
Hotel Poseidon
Hotel Poseidon sits at the edge of Chora, the main town on Ios, roughly 50 metres from the port and 300 metres from the town beach. That location makes it one of the most practically positioned…
Hotel Helena
Hotel Helena sits just 60 metres from Yialos beach, the main sandy bay below the port of Ios, placing it within easy reach of both the water and the ferry quay. The port itself is 400 metres away…
Gialos
Gialos is the name both locals and visitors use for the port settlement of Ios island, and this hotel sits directly within that compact harbourside neighbourhood. Arriving by ferry from Athens…
Avanti
Hotel Avanti sits in the upper quarter of Ios Chora, the island's hilltop main town, where whitewashed alleys climb toward windmills and the views open out over terracotta rooftops to the Aegean…
Pension Irene
Pension Irene is a small guesthouse sitting in Ios Chora, the whitewashed hilltop village that is the social and geographic centre of Ios island. With a 4-out-of-5 rating across 58 guest reviews, it…
Relux Ios
Relux Ios Hotel sits directly at the marina of Ios — the first thing ferry arrivals see as they pull into port. Opened in 2015, this four-star boutique property has 18 rooms and suites, each designed…
Lofos village
Lofos Village sits on a hill directly above Ios Chora — close enough to walk to the old town in a few minutes, but elevated enough to trade the evening noise of the main square for open-sky views…
George and Irene
George and Irene Hotel is a small lodging property in Chora, the main village of Ios, positioned to give guests direct access to the island's central hub. With a Google rating of 3.8 from 39 reviews…
Armadoros Hotel
Armadoros Hotel occupies a position in Ios Chora — the whitewashed hilltop village that sits at the centre of island life on Ios. It is one of the more established lodging options in the village…
Kritikakis Village
Kritikakis Village Hotel sits at the foot of Chora's hillside, directly beside the port promenade at Yialos — the small harbour settlement that serves as Ios's arrival point. The property is designed…
Faros Hotel
Faros Hotel sits directly at Gialos Beach — the main port beach of Ios — placing you within walking distance of the ferry dock, the waterfront tavernas, and the steep path that leads up to Ios Town…
Hotel Violetta
Hotel Violetta is a small, independently run hotel located in Chora, the main settlement of Ios island in the Cyclades. With a 4.1 out of 5 rating across 32 reviews, it offers a straightforward…
Olga's Hotel
Olga's Hotel sits within a few steps of Gialos Beach — the main sandy stretch at the port of Ios — making it one of the most conveniently placed small hotels on the island. It earns a 4.6-star rating…
Princess Sissy
Princess Sissy is a family-run hotel and hostel positioned on the old stepped walking path that connects Ios port (Gialos) with Ios Chora, the island's hilltop main village. The property sits roughly…
Il centro
Il Centro is an apartment accommodation property sitting at the centre of Ios, one of the Cyclades islands roughly midway between Naxos and Santorini. Its location puts guests within easy reach of…
Homer's Inn
Homer's Inn is a well-rated hotel on Ios, positioned along the road that connects Ios Village (the Chora) with Ormos, the island's main port. With a 4.6-star rating from 161 Google reviews, it sits…
AGALIA
Agalia Luxury Suites sits on the hillside slopes of the Tzamaria area on Ios, positioned on a ridge that faces the port and Chora on one side and the cove of Koumbara Beach on the other. The hotel…
Petra Holiday Village
Petra Holiday Village sits in Ormos — the port village of Ios — and consists of 17 independent self-catering studios and apartments built in the white-and-stone Cycladic style that defines the…
marinas
Marina Ios
Marina Ios sits at the heart of Ios island's port, serving as the first point of contact for anyone arriving by ferry from Piraeus, Santorini, Naxos, or other Cycladic islands. The compact harbour…
Perammos
Perammos is one of the quieter stretches of coastline on Ios, tucked away on the island's southeastern side where the crowds that fill Mylopotas and Magganari tend not to reach. Getting there…
monuments
Omiros
Ios has carried the claim of being Homer's final resting place for well over two millennia. The ancient Greek poet — credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey — was said by several classical…
Oikia Valetta
Oikia Valetta is a historic memorial house on Ios, preserved in honour of a notable local family whose name it carries. Unlike the ancient ruins or whitewashed churches that draw most visitors to the…
Museums
Archaeological museum of Ios
The Archaeological Museum of Ios sits in Ios Chora, the island's main settlement, and holds a focused collection of artifacts recovered from excavations carried out across the island. It is a small…
Amiradacean Mansion
The Amiradacean Mansion is one of the few surviving examples of a traditional Cycladic manor house on Ios, an island better known today for its beaches and nightlife than for preserved domestic…
Palaia Thyra Amoiradakeiou
Palaia Thyra Amoiradakeiou — which translates roughly as the "Old Gate of the Amoiradakeio" — is a preserved historic gateway that once marked the entrance to the Amoiradakeio estate on Ios. While…
Laografiko Mouseio Iou
The Laografiko Mouseio Iou — Ios's folk museum — sits in Chora, the whitewashed hilltop capital that most visitors pass through on the way to a bar or a beach. It's a small institution with a…
Windmills
The windmills of Ios sit on the ridge directly above Chora, the island's main village, forming one of the most recognizable silhouettes in the Cyclades. Cylindrical, whitewashed, and roofless after…
Restaurants
Coral Kitchen And Bar
Coral Kitchen and Bar sits right on Port Beach — the stretch of sand immediately in front of Ios's main harbour — making it one of the more straightforwardly placed dinner options on the island. It…
La Buca
La Buca has been operating in Ios Chora since 1981, making it one of the island's oldest continuously running restaurants. What began as a family business has grown into a genuine institution on an…
Rigani Meat Bar
Rigani Meat Bar is a casual, meat-focused restaurant and bar on Ios, built around the kind of no-fuss grilled cooking that suits the island's unhurried pace outside peak party hours. The name itself…
Doors Ios
Doors is a cocktail bar sitting right at the port of Ios, the small but busy harbour at the foot of the island. Unlike the cluster of bars that animate Ios Town's Chora up on the hill, Doors…
Akrogiali
Akrogiali occupies one of the prime spots on the harbour square in Ios port, with its tables spreading out toward the marina and direct views across to the church of Agia Eirini. It is a full-day…
Peri Anemon
Peri Anemon sits right at the port of Ios, making it one of the first and last food stops travelers pass through on the island. With a 4.4-star rating across more than 450 Google reviews, it has…
Tropicana Cafe
Tropicana Cafe is an all-day café-bar-restaurant on Ios that runs from 8 in the morning straight through to midnight, every day of the week. That sixteen-hour window makes it one of the more…
Thai Me Up
Thai Me Up sits directly on the port square of Ios, one of the few places on the island where you can eat pad thai or a full breakfast while watching ferries arrive across the Aegean. The restaurant…
Chilli Pepper
Chilli Pepper is a casual restaurant on Ios with a straightforward identity: food that carries a spicy edge, served without ceremony in a relaxed setting. On an island better known for its beach bars…
Lotus
Lotus is a restaurant and bar sitting in Ios Chora, the whitewashed hilltop village that looks down over the ferry port and Mylopotas bay. With a 4.2-star rating from 90 Google reviews, it holds its…
Koubara Seafood Restaurant
Koubara Seafood Restaurant occupies one of the better positions on the island: a table here puts you at the edge of Koubara beach, a sheltered cove about two kilometres southwest of Ios Town (Chora)…
Enigma
Enigma is a dinner restaurant in Ios Chora, the island's main settlement, open every evening from 6:00 PM to 11:30 PM. With a 4.5-star rating across more than 229 Google reviews, it holds a…
Vemezxo
Vemezxo is a local restaurant on Ios, one of the Cyclades islands in the southern Aegean, positioned at coordinates that place it away from the main tourist drag of Ios Town's Chora. For travelers…
The Octopus Tree
The Octopus Tree sits right at the port of Ios, which puts it in a different category from the tavernas up in the Chora. While the hilltop village gets most of the attention, the harbour has its own…
La Randa
La Randa is a restaurant located in Ios Chora, the island's whitewashed hilltop capital, sitting at coordinates that place it firmly within the dense maze of alleyways and stepped passages that…
Pithari
Pithari is a traditional Greek restaurant on the island of Ios, serving the kind of straightforward Hellenic cuisine that forms the backbone of eating well in the Cyclades. The name itself — pithari…
I Nios
I Nios sits in the heart of Ios Chora, the whitewashed hilltop village that forms the social and commercial center of the island. With a 4.7 rating across 550 Google reviews, it has built a…
Escape
Escape is a restaurant on Ios offering a relaxed dining setting with a varied menu covering both food and drinks. Its coordinates place it in the general area of Ios's main activity — the stretch…
Ciao Bella
Ciao Bella is an Italian restaurant in Ios Chora, the island's main village, focusing on fresh pasta and pizza in a casual evening setting. It holds a 4-star rating across more than 200 Google…
Agosto
Agosto is a Mediterranean restaurant and bar in Ios Chora with eighteen consecutive seasons on the island — a track record that is genuinely unusual in a place where restaurants come and go with the…
Aphroditi
Aphroditi is a traditional Greek taverna on Ios, sitting along the Epar.Od. Iou-Ormou Iou — the main road that links Ios Town (the Chora) with the port at Ormos. Open every day of the week from 10 in…
Escobar
Escobar is a late-night bar in Ios Chora, the main village of Ios island, operating every night from 11 PM to 4 AM. It sits at coordinates that place it squarely within Chora's compact nightlife…
Click
Click is a bar and café in Ios Village — the hilltop Chora that sits above the port and draws most of the island's social life — with a 4.6 rating across 577 Google reviews, which puts it among the…
Lord Byron
Lord Byron is a traditional Greek taverna in Ios Town, the Cycladic hilltop settlement that locals call the Chora. With a 4.3-star rating drawn from over 350 Google reviews, it has built a steady…
Polydoros
Polydoros is a traditional Greek taverna in Koumpara on Ios, carrying a 4.5-star rating across 858 Google reviews — one of the higher review counts you'll find on an island that isn't short of places…
Flames
Flames is a bar in Ios Chora — the hilltop village that sits above the port and acts as the social center of the island after dark. With a Google rating of 4.0 and an Instagram presence under…
Ios Blue
Ios Blue is a bar located in Chora, the main village of Ios island, at the address registered as Chora 840 01. With a 4.9-star rating drawn from 59 Google reviews, it sits among the highest-rated…
Slammer
Slammer is one of the fixtures of Ios Chora's notoriously active nightlife strip. It opens at 10 PM every night of the week and runs until 5 AM, positioning it squarely in the middle of an evening…
Johni's Electric
Johni's Electric is a late-night bar in Ios Chora, the compact hilltop village that sits above the island's port and below its famous cluster of windmills. It opens at 10 PM and runs through until 6…
Garden Of Ios
Garden of Ios is an open-air restaurant and bar that occupies an actual garden setting on Ios, operating evenings Tuesday through Sunday from 7:00 PM. The kitchen works with seasonal, locally sourced…
Sainis Taverna
Sainis Taverna has been feeding locals and travelers on Ios since 1960, making it one of the longest-running restaurants on an island better known for its bars than its kitchens. It is a small…
Garden Of Ios
Garden of Ios is a garden bar and restaurant on Ios that operates on a clear set of principles: seasonal organic ingredients, natural Greek wines, and cocktails built around wild-harvested Cycladic…
The Nest
The Nest sits on Ios's central village road in Chora, the whitewashed hilltop capital that most visitors pass through on their way between the port and the famous bars further up. It's a family-run…
The Mills
The Mills has been feeding visitors and locals in Ios Chora since 1969, making it one of the longest-running restaurants on the island. Positioned near Mills Square — the cluster of whitewashed…
The Pit Shop
The Pit Shop sits in Ios Chora and operates squarely within the island's well-known late-night scene, opening at 11 PM and running through to 4 AM every night of the week. It is connected to the…
Grandma's
Grandma's Restaurant on Ios has collected consecutive awards in the "Modern Greek Cuisine" category every year since 2019 — a run that sets it apart from the island's many tavernas and casual…
supermarkets
Mini Market
This Mini Market sits in Chora, the main village on Ios, and functions as a compact convenience stop for everyday groceries and household basics. It's the kind of store travelers rely on when they…
Rollan
Rollan is a supermarket located in Chora, the main village on the island of Ios, and with a 4.4-star rating across 274 Google reviews it consistently ranks as one of the more reliable places to stock…
Aegean Market
Aegean Market is a supermarket in Ios Town (Chora) with a second location near the island's port, giving it good coverage for both visitors staying in the village and those arriving by ferry. It…
Market
Ios may be best known for its beaches and nightlife, but practical needs don't pause for a holiday. This market sits at coordinates placing it in the vicinity of Ios Town (Chora) — the island's main…
Aegean market
Aegean Market is one of the main supermarkets in Ios Town (Chora), located on the island of Ios in the Cyclades. Open every day of the week from 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM, it serves both residents and the…
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Route Path
→To Koumbara Beach
- 1Chora
- 2Port
- 3GIALOS PARALIA
- 4Koumbara Beach
→To Chora
- 1Koumbara Beach
- 2Port
- 3Chora
→To Chora
- 1Koumbara Beach
- 2GIALOS PARALIA
- 3Port
- 4Chora
→To Koumbara
- 1Chora
- 2Port
- 3Koumbara Beach