VENITIAN MUSEUM
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A nice little museum where you can discover religious objects and traditional clothing from the 17th to the 20th century.
This pretty little museum, housed in the beautiful 13th-century Rocca-Barozzi family home, is apparently no surprise. It doesn't even contain objects from the medieval period when the Venetians ruled the island and is therefore more like a folklore museum with crockery, cult objects, bedding and traditional clothing from the 17th-20th centuries. But it perfectly illustrates the life of the rich families of the Franco-Italian nobility who have lived on the island for seven centuries in a very lively way, since the descendants of the Rocca-Barozzi family still live there during the winter. The museum is thus held by the Franco-Greek Nikolaos Michel Laurent Karavias Barrozzi Della Rocca, of Greek father and French mother, from a large Franco-Venetian family settled on Naxos after the Fourth Crusade of 1204. He is the one who most often acts as a guide and ends the visit with a tasting of kitron, the local liqueur. Apart from the magnificent view that the museum offers over the port, its other interest lies in the evenings that are organised there almost every evening from April to September: traditional music (Wednesday and Sunday), jazz, classical music, shadow theatre, etc. The season closes with the Domus Festival, which takes place in October with a concert almost every evening. For the anecdote, the museum has recently been closed for a dark heritage story, if you ever find the door closed, you never know?
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