Kourounochori sits in the green Melanes valley, deep in the fertile interior of Naxos, the largest island of the Cyclades. Olive groves, natural springs and old watermills wrap the settlement, and stone lanes climb between low houses toward the Frankish-era Della Rocca tower. The village keeps a working farming character rather than a resort face, … Read more
The Kouros of Flerio is one of the most atmospheric ancient sites on Naxos, and it is really a pair rather than a single figure. Two colossal unfinished marble statues, each roughly six metres long, lie exactly where their carvers left them in the 6th century BC, deep in the green Flerio valley near the … Read more
Melanes is one of the greenest inland corners of Naxos, a cluster of small settlements tucked into a fertile valley just a short drive from the island’s main town. Where most of the Cyclades feels dry and sun-bleached, Melanes surprises visitors with running springs, dense olive groves, plane trees and orchards fed by underground water. … Read more