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Top 10 sights in Naxos Island

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   Portara of Naxos

   The remains of a temple of Apollo on the islet of Palatia north of the harbour of Naxos. The tyrant Lygdamis left it unfinished in the sixth century BC; its Greek name, Portara, means the great door, and only the marble doorframe stands.

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   Archaeological Museum of Naxos

   The island's archaeological museum, in the Venetian building of the Jesuit school founded in 1700 inside the Kastro. A museum since 1972, it holds Early Cycladic figurines from Naxos, Keros and Kato Kouphonisi, along with Mycenaean grave goods from the tombs at Aplomata.

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   sanctuary of Yria

   A sanctuary of Dionysus on the plain south of Naxos town, where worship reaches back to about 1400 BC. Four temples rose here in succession, the last in the 6th century BC; excavation since 1986 has raised its columns again above the water table.

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   Temple of Sangri

   A late Archaic temple at Yria, a kilometre and a half south of Ano Sangri on Naxos in Greece. Built about 530 BC entirely of Naxian marble, it is among the earliest Ionic temples.

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   Archaeological Collection of Apeiranthos

   A museum in the village of Apeiranthos on Naxos, Greece. It is named after Michalis Bardanis, a mathematician and local archaeologist who gathered the finds in the 1960s to keep them from looters.

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   Saint George Diasoritis, Naxos

   A Byzantine church six hundred metres from the village of Chalki in the middle of Naxos in Greece, known for the wall paintings inside it.

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   Church of Panagia Protothronos (Naxos)

   An Orthodox church in the village of Chalki in the Tragaia valley in the interior of Naxos in Greece. It is dedicated to the Annunciation and was converted from an early Christian basilica into a cross-in-square church in the middle Byzantine period.

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   Grotta

   An archaeological site on the north-west coast of Naxos, Greece, next to the island's main town.

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   Cave of Zas on Naxos

   A cave on Mount Zas on Naxos in Greece. It was used from the late Neolithic to Early Cycladic III; no traces of grain have been found, which suggests it served for herding in the driest season rather than year-round occupation.

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    Panagia Drosiani

    A Byzantine monastery church south of the village of Moni, at the northern end of the Drymalia valley on Naxos, Greece. Its adjoining burial ground is among the oldest in the Balkans.

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