4 Best Performing Arts Venues in The Cyclades, Greece

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.

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.

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.

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