Three picturesque windmills on Naxos, on a small hill overlooking the entrance to the village, are the Tripodes landmark. Built in the 19th century, together with the windmill of Skarkos, at the exit ...

A very pleasant walk on an old footpath near Galini, leading to some ancient founts in the Messonissi area, takes you back to Naxos’ Byzantine past. The footpath was part of a trail once used by the m ...

This was one of the six loading stations for the emery mined in the area, and up to a few years ago was Naxos’ most environmentally abused location due to the construction of a road in the 1970’s. Cur ...

Aries Spring on Naxos is located 2km from Filoti, at a picturesque spot with a wonderful view of the village. It is said that the flow of pure water provided by this beautiful, stone-built spring, loc ...

Two of the five old olive mills (“fabrikes” in the local dialect) that existed in Koronos village on Naxos, those of the Boulamatsades family and of the church, in the Livadaki neighborhood and very n ...

Ioannis Sakelliadis’s olive mill on Naxos is housed in the Kokkos tower house in Kaloxylos, which, according to an official record, was built before 1664. A manual olive mill was first operated on the ...

Naxos’ first motorized olive mill is found at Demari, located between Melanes and Kourounochori. It was established by members of a local Catholic association and served producers in the area for seve ...

The transportation of emery from the mines to the shipping stations at Moutsouna and Lionas was initially conducted with donkeys over rough trails but this was both energy- and time-consuming. The con ...

An area of some 250 acres on the slopes of Mt. Amomaxis, in the northeastern part of Naxos, is dotted with hundreds of small emery (smyrida in Greek) mines which date from the Bronze Age to the presen ...