Mykonos is the beloved island of the international jet-set and of all kinds of world celebrities.
In Chora, the capital of the island, the beautiful and famous James Heber, a Swiss star who finally committed suicide, was the first foreign celebrity to build a house. Melina Mercouri, Marlon Brando, Grace Kelly and Richard Burton adored the summer in Mykonos and their photos were the ultimate advertisement, establishing the island as an absolute destination for a few.luxury villas in mykonos That's when Jackie Kennedy chose Mykonos as her favorite place and Onassis, the owner of Olympiaki airlines, built the first airport. People say that that was the reason why the young Greek Prime Minister of the time, Konstantinos Karamanlis, visited Mykonos for the first time. While today politicians have villas, swimming pools, glamorous lives and endless luxuries, Konstantinos Karamanlis, usually stayed in the small hotel of his friend and secretary Theodoros Charitopoulos, while sometimes he was hosted Theodoros Nikolaidis’s house, the publisher of the sports newspaper, in an area called Ornos. From 1986 until his death, Karamanlis spent every summer, for about a month, in Mykonos, usually from the end of June, avoiding the crowds of August and the many gatherings with powerful, simple and uncomplicated people, such as the island, which once enchanted him.
In the ten years of the '70s gay couples from all around the world came to the island, where they enjoyed complete freedom and no one commened on their options and life choices. They gave a high aesthetic touch to the entertainment, the food, the decoration, to match the place where the Apollo of light was born. Pierro’s Bar was writing history. Among its guests was the last heir of the German industry Krupp, who was always accompanied by dozens of muscular lightly dressed men, the "sad princess" Soraya, who had taken a divorce at the time, the Shah of Persia because he had no children and who lived a secular life. Also, without the atrocities of politics, and the legendary Elizabeth Taylor, who would arrive on the island just to spend a Saturday night, take a bath in the morning and leave on Sunday afternoon.
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