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Parga is a picturesque small town on the north-western coast of Greece, situated in a sheltered bay with its houses climbing the mountainside from seaside to the top. It has a castle, one large beach on the other side of the mountain called Valtos Beach, two smaller beaches in town (one is pictured above), an island across the bay with a chapel on, a pier for the tourboats and fishingboats in the middle of town and another beach a couple of kilometers south of town in the next village called Lichnos beach.

Parga is surrounded by mountains covered with olive groves. The olive groves are actually more like olive forests than groves with very large trees. Apart from Parga, and some smaller villages nearby, this area is mountaneous and very sparsely populated.

Parga is a positive surprise. It is advertised as a small town on the mainland with an island-feeling to it and that's exactly what it is. It retains the genuine aura of a small Greek town. At the restaurants you get genuine greek food, not the tourist version, and the locals are just very nice and friendly. There are as many greek tourists as people from elsewhere in the world. Wintertime Parga has about 2.500 inhabitants and many more during tourist-season.

With the nice town, the harbour and its restaurants, the nearby beaches and the great food, Parga is worth a visit. It is a quiet and relaxing place, not for those who prefer a lot of activity or patying but for those who want to relax and take it easy. You can take short day trips to some of the nearby islands like Paxos and Antipaxos and also to neareby towns like Preveza, Ioannina, Lefkada, etc. The big island of Corfu is also not all that far away.
Adapted from Nini's World