Food
Most of the food specialities of Naxos are made with the
wide variety of the delicious cheese produced in the island.
Some of the famous cheeses of Naxos are the “Graviera”,
which is the most famous one and is a quite hard cheese
with an intense taste, the “Mizithra”, a hard cheese mostly
used on pastas and meet dishes, the “Manouri”, a soft
cheese with a light taste, the “Xynotyri”, which is a
soft cheese with an intense and a bit acid taste, the
“Anthotyro”, a delicious soft cheese, the “Provio”, an
excellent cheese made of goat’s milk and the “Kefalotiri”,
a hard and salted cheese used for omelettes, on pastas
and for the famous and mouth-watering fried cheese called
“saganaki”.
Wine
and liqueur
 According
to mythology, Naxos is the island where the god Dionysus,
god of wine, grew up and he loved the island so much
that he made its land fertile, full of vineyards producing
a high-quality wine.
 This
myth explains why there are vineyards all over the island.
Local wine can be tasted and bought in every shop and
tavern of Naxos.
Another very famous product of
Naxos is the famous liqueur called “Kitron”, an aperitif
made of a fruit of the same name, resembling to the
lemon but with a stronger and slightly different taste.
The first distillery producing Kitron was established
in 1896 in the village of Halki, which used to be the
capital of the island.
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The
island of Naxos Greece has a wide variety of local products
for it is the largest and most fertile island of the
Cyclades and therefore has an important agricultural
production.
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