Naousa is a village in the Cyclades

Cyclades

The Cyclades is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around the sacred island of Delos...

. It is located in the north eastern corner of the island of Paros

Paros

Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets...

, and has a population of 2,870.

In the summer, when it is warm and sunny almost every day, Naousa attracts many tourists from all Europe because of the climate and the nearby beaches like Kolympithres. During the winter it is cold and occasionally snowy.

Historical facts

In 1770–1775, during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 and the Orlov Revolt

Orlov Revolt

The Orlov Revolt was a precursor to the Greek War of Independence , which saw a Greek uprising in the Peloponnese at the instigation of Count Orlov, commander of the Russian Naval Forces of the Russo-Turkish War...

, Naousa was a Russian naval base, known in Russian as Auza, and the administrative centre of Alexey Orlov's military expedition.