3 Best Performing Arts in The Cyclades, Greece

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.

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.

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.