Our hoilday in Naxos Photo Gallery by Joanne Santillo at pbase.com

Our hoilday in Naxos

Photos by Joanne Santillo
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The largest of the Cyclades, Naxos was first settled in 3000 BC. A major centre of the Cycladic civilization, it was one of the first islands to use marble. Naxos fell to the Venetians in 1207, and the numerous fortified towers (pyrgoi) were built, still evident across the island today. Its landscape is rich with citrus orchards and olive groves, and it is famous in myth as the place where Theseus abandoned the Cretan princess Ariadne.

Mykonos ferry port from ferry on the way to Naxos	Me birthday night in a greek Taverna	Greek Taverna opposite were we stayed	The stark contrast between the white of the houses and the bright red of this flower can be seen all over the island
A typical Naxos street	Me sitting on Naxos town front	Peaceful Naxos Town	Ferry port, Naxos Town
Naxos Town front know by locals a Chora	Grotta beach - Naxos	Beach side Taverna at Plaka beach	Me at Plaka beach
Our little four wheel drive with bikini top	Agios Arsenios	Agios Arsenios looking down the hill (It's a lot steeper and narrower than it looks here)	One of Naxos' many greek monastery's
Prickly pear	One of Naxos' many greek monastery's	Three mad french girls walking, out in the mid day sun	Jacky and myself, time out
All we need now is blue!	A constrast from the stark white of most buildings	Greek monastery	Somewhere and nowhere
A car port (Spot the cow)	An olive grove	Apirathos	Filoti
Jacky above Filoti	Me above Filoti	The mountains, Mount Zeus in the background	The wilderness
On the way up Mount Zeus	Our little un-airconditioned four wheeler with a bikini top	A greek working donkey taking a break	Coast line from Grotta beach
Temple of Apollo in the distance	Grotta beach	The clear blue sea...	The Kastro
Typical balcony	Looking up to the Kastro	Morcombe?	Temple of Apollo and more clear blue sea...
Spot the fish	Causeway to the Temple of Apollo	Greek Fish	Chora from a distance
View of mountains	Our second rental car, air conditioned	Dimitras Temple	Dimitras Temple
Dimitras Temple	Dimitras Temple	View from Dimitras Temple	Dimitras Temple
I just liked this one	Microsoft Windows eat your heart out...	Cycle port	Dimitras Temple again
Pink and white Hydrangea with mountains in background	View from up high	The unspoilt land	A cloud shadow!
Apollon right view	Apollon left view	Me with the 11m Archaic Kouros (7th-6th c. BC) an unfinished statue of a young man. Why it never left the site remains an enigma	Some interesting rock
Hello!	A very noisy cricket of many	Chora town square	Another sun set landscape
Another day on Grotta beach	Grotta coast line	The sea!	13th century Catholic cathedral in the Kastro, Chora
Close up of Typical blue domed church of Naxos	In the middle of nowhere...	Another olive grove	A mountainous view
Greek goats ass	Temple of Apollo	The causeway	Me holding up the Temple of Apollo
Cretan chapel	Cretan chapel architecture	Cretan chapel	Marble quary
A family shrine		Yanni and me ( our run car rental union naxos friend)

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