Naxos has been uninterruptedly inhabited since the 4th millennium BC.  The first inhabitants are thought to have come from the northeastern Greek region of Thrace. According to the myth, King Voreas’s ...

Many scholars consider that the center of Naxos during Byzantine times was in the area of Apano Kastro/Tragea/Aperathou and in the broader district of Sagri/Kastro t’Apalirou, stretching as far asAgia ...

The Tower of Crispi - the only one surviving of Kastro’s twelve towers that are believed to have originally stood to protect it. According to local legend, the tower served as the palace of the dynast ...

Part of the Mycenean capital of Naxos, dating to 1300 BC, was discovered under Catherdral square, on the northern side of the port, near Grotta. Large cemeteries of the era were located at Aplomata an ...

Naxos joined the Greek struggle for independence from the Ottoman Empire on May 6, 1821. Dozens of Naxiots are recorded in the so-called Struggle Archive at the National Library of Greece. Leading fig ...