Naxos Island has long history which includes the Venetian occupation, Byzantine period, Hellenistic period, Archaic period and goes back to Neolithic period. Naxos has history and culture.
Churches with byzantine frescoes, ruins of neolithic settlements, ancient temples, Frank castles, Venetian castles, palaces, archaeological museums, folklore museums marked with the stamp of past glories.
Portara
The "trade mark" of Naxos Island. A huge portal of Temple of Apollo, built on the orders of tyrant Lygdamis in the 6th century BC, but never completed. Portara exactly faces the sacred island of Delos.
Temple of Demetra
The temple dates back to the time of the tyrant of Naxos, Lygdamis (circa. 530 BC) and it was part of his ambitious building programme, comparable to that of the Athenian Peisistratos.
Iria
A sacred place of the Aegean which dates back, to prehistoric times -1300 BC.
Kalamitsia
The holidays palace of Jesuits in a fertile valley in Melanes.
The Castle in Hora and Glezos (Crispi) Tower
Border tower protecting the Castle of Sanoudos in Hora. The wall surrounding the fortress is pentagonal and has three gates. Glezos Tower (Crispi) stands near the northwestern gate and extends in part along the western and northern side of the Castle. It has four floors and it is the only castle in Naxos Island with a round tower attached to it.
Panagia Myrtidiotissa
Built on an islet in the harbour of Naxos Town.
Panagia Protothroni
Since 9th century. On the inner walls are five layers of fine frescoes belonging to the Early Christian, middle Byzantine and late Byzantine periods.
Panagia Drossiani
An Early Christian, tri-apsidal church with a dome. The earliest layer of frescoes dates to late 6th - early 7th century.
Archaeological Museum in Naxos Town
Findings dating from the late neolithic period to early christian times (5300 BC - 5th century AD).
Archaeological Museum in Apeiranthos
Exceptional findings of Cycladic Civilization (3000-1200 BC), plaques covered with iconograms of first Greek writing.
