The Rough Guide to Greece by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781848367272
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

Portára

A long causeway, built to protect the harbour to the north, connects Náxos Town with the islet of Palátia – the place where, according to legend, Theseus was duped by Dionysos into abandoning Ariadne on his way home from Crete. The famous stone Portára that has greeted visitors for 2500 years is the portal of a temple of Apollo, built on the orders of the tyrant Lygdamis around 530 BC, but never completed.

The Kástro

Tours offered by the Venetian museum at 11am Tues–Sun in season • €15, includes entrance to all the kástro museums

The kástro is normally entered through the north gate (also known as the Traní Pórta or “Majestic Gate”), a splendid example of a medieval fort entrance. A few of the Venetians’ Catholic descendants still live in the old mansions that encircle the site, many with ancient coats of arms above the doorways. In the centre of the kástro are the plain stone remains of a rectangular tower, said to have been the residence of Marco Sanudo. Opposite the tower stands the restored Catholic cathedral, still displaying a thirteenth-century crest inside. Behind the tower you can find the seventeenth-century Ursuline convent. Nearby is what was to become one of Ottoman Greece’s first schools, the French Commercial School; opened by Jesuits in 1627 for Catholic and Orthodox students alike, its pupils included, briefly, writer Nikos Kazantzakis.

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