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Aghios Stefanos is a beautiful and picturesque chapel in the area of Galissas built among the rocks. The chapel was built by a fisherman after praying to the Saint to help him

That’s the cave where the theogonist poet and philosopher Pherecydes used to reside during the cold winter months in the 6th century BC

On the north of the island there are two giant boulders each weighing hundreds of tons.

A painted red house at Episkopeio. It is said that has even inspired Manolis Karagatsis to write the novel “The Great Chimera”, which recounts the story.

On the northern shores of the island, in Grammata, we can find ancient inscriptions engraved on steep, almost vertical, rocks.

On Apollonos Street, next to the church of Agios Nikolaos, on the triangular marble cornice of the door of a ruined neoclassic house, is engraved in a circle the number 161...

Near the center of the town, at the church of "Dormition of Virgin Mary" you can see the marvelous paint of art of Domenicus Theotokopoulos. One of his first paintings!

Chalandriani is located 9.5 kilometers away from Ermoupolis, on the northeast side of the island and it is one of the most important archaeological sites within the Cyclades as a prehistoric acropolis dating back to the 3rd millennium BC has been discovered in the area after excavations conducted by Christos Tsountas in the late 19th century.