Kythnos – general
Kythnos After Kea, Kythnos is the closest of the Cycladic islands to Athens, yet surprisingly it is one of the least developed. With a population big enough to give it a stable sense of [...]
Kythnos – history
History What is possibly the earliest known Mesolithic settlement in the Cyclades, dated by laboratory analyses to the 9th or 8th millennium bc, has been identified on the coast at Maroulas (500m [...]
Kythnos – Chora and the north of the island – Merichas to Vryokastro
Merichas to Vryokastro The small port of Merichas, where all ferries arrive, has an attractive setting which encircles a sheltered cove in the middle of the island’s west coast. The harbour area [...]
Kythnos – Chora and the north of the island – Chora
Chora A kilometre from the Apokrisi junction the main road reaches Chora, or Kythnos (7km), which superseded Dry opida as the administrative centre of the island in 1864. Invisible from the [...]
Kythnos – Chora and the north of the island – Kastro
Kastro A rough track heads north from Loutra to the northern extremity of the island; after 2km a branch leads steeply up to the west to a plateau where it divides. The north branch finishes at [...]
Kythnos – Dryopis and the south of the island – Dryopis
Dryopis Dryopis, or Dryopida, takes its name from the original settlers of the island who were, according to Herodotus (Hist. VIII. 46), ‘Dryopes’. The town has much more the tight-knit feel of [...]
Kythnos – Dryopis and the south of the island – Kanala & the south of the island
Kanala & the south of the island The road south from Dryopis climbs up to a summit crowned by half a dozen ruined windmills—many still with much of their machinery in situ—and then runs along [...]