The Emery Mines of Naxos
The emery mines of Naxos carved an industrial world into the island’s northern mountains, far from the beaches most travellers picture. Naxos held one of the planet’s richest deposits of emery, a stone so hard it dressed grindstones and polished glass across Europe. Smyrida, as locals call it, turned villages like Koronos and Apeiranthos into … Read more
