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The lushest of the Cyclades islands, Naxos is often called the “green leaf” of the Aegean Sea. It’s a good alternative for Greek island vacation.
The Portara is one of the most iconic monuments on the Greek island of Naxos, located in the Cyclades. This gigantic marble gateway, which stands on a small peninsula facing the city of Naxos, is all ...
Today Naxos marble is still used on the island, mainly for door and window frames and lintels, sculptures and decorative motifs. About 5,000 cubic meters of the purest marble are exported annually to ...
Like Naxos' marble carving and architecture, Sanibel Island prides itself on shell artistry and has a large community of shell painters and artists who display their work all over the island.
Walking the Naxos Strada, where the streets are paved with marble. Clare Hargreaves pulls on her walking boots to discover a hiking trail in Greece’s Cyclades that supports a more sustainable ...
Links to the gods: At the tip of Naxos’ harbor on the Palatia islet, a massive and majestic marble doorframe called the Portara has stood since 530 B.C., the 80-ton entrance to an unfinished ...
Clare Hargreaves pulls on her walking boots to discover a hiking trail in Greece’s Cyclades that supports a more sustainable form of tourism than the usual fly-and-flop ...
The lushest of the Cyclades islands, Naxos is often called the “green leaf” of the Aegean Sea. It’s a good alternative for Greek island vacation.
Clare Hargreaves pulls on her walking boots to discover a hiking trail in Greece’s Cyclades that supports a more sustainable form of tourism than the usual fly-and-flop ...