An archaeological site on the north coast of Mykonos, set on and around a beach in the bay of Panormos. Excavations since the 1990s have uncovered a substantial Early Bronze Age settlement dating to around 2700–2200 BC — roughly contemporary with the Minoan civilisation's early period on Crete. The finds include storage vessels, tools, and evidence of a structured community that fished, farmed, and traded.
The beach itself is one of the wilder and less crowded on the island, with a rough surface and a windswept quality that the south-coast beach clubs decidedly lack. The archaeological remains are not dramatically visible to the untrained eye — there is no site museum at Ftelia — but the setting is striking and the context, if you've visited the Archaeological Museum first, gives the landscape a different depth.