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The island of Naxos has many sights to offer. Apart from its natural beauty, there are many interesting monuments, buildings, ruins and archaeological sites to visit.
In keeping with its long and eventful
history, you can visit on Naxos the remains from many different eras: from the Bronze Age and the Geometric epoch to the Archaic epoch and Classical Antiquity, the Byzantine era and the Middle Ages; but there is also much to discover from the modern era with its traditional self-sufficient economy. The sights of Naxos include temples and sanctuaries, ancient cemeteries and settlements, ancient statues, water pipes and bridges, fortresses of various ages, towers, churches and monasteries, emery mines and traditional oil, water and wind mills.
On these pages I endeavour to present not only the well-known monuments of the island, which are usually easily accessible and sometimes even provided with signs and explanations, but also the lesser-known ones, which are often just as interesting and which you can and must discover on your own. Please show respect to the monuments you visit and try to follow the rule: “Take nothing but photographs and leave nothing but footprints”.
