| Naxos Island is the largest and most
fertile island in Cyclades. It combines golden sands,
mountain beauty and plenty of traditional villages. |
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| Naxos is an island rooted in antiquity, in its Kouros
and Cycladic stone idols, in its castles and churches,
with names that reveal its history as a cultural crossroads:
Naxos, Strongili, Dia, Dionyssia, Axia, Nixia, Little
Sicily, "the flower of the East." On its west
we find Paros, on the east, Donoussa, with the minor Cyclades
to the south and Delos and Mykonos to the north. Naxos
famed fertile valleys succeed the barren regions, and
the impressive rock formations will lead you to olive
grove valleys where orange, lemon and other citrus trees
dot the landscape. Marble and emery define the Naxian
soil and the necessary element for this great fruitfulness,
water, is abundant in this blessed land. Dionysos offered
the vine as his gift to the earth that bore him, so we
can enjoy its wonderful wine. This island of the wine
god claims the longest beaches among the Cyclades; from
the shore, where the first contact is made with the Naxian
landscape, begin the literally countless cobblestone paths
of the interior where history presents itself with every
step. |
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| Naxos has a land area of 448 square kilometres and a
shoreline of 148 kilometres. It is 103 nautical miles
from the port of Piraeus where there is traffic daily
to and from Naxos by ship, as well as daily weekday flights
from Athens to Naxos year-round. The island is connected
by ferry and hydrofoil with the rest of the Cyclades,
the islands of the eastern Aegean, the Dodecanese, Heraklion
in Crete, and Thessaloniki. |
Friday ,
3 September 2010
