The Kouros of Apollonas (Naxos)

The Kouros of Apollonas (Naxos)

The Kouros of Apollonas is a colossal unfinished ancient statue that still lies where sculptors abandoned it, half-carved in the marble of a quarry near the northern Naxos village of Apollonas. Measuring roughly ten metres long, this bearded giant was never freed from the rock, and today visitors can walk right up to it and … Read more