The Kouros of Apollonas
The Verdict
A strange, human thing to stand next to. Worth it only if you are already driving the north coast.
Why go
Naxos was the great marble island of the archaic period and this figure was cut and then abandoned, probably because it broke or because the quarry was a commercial failure. It lies where it fell, roped off at the edge of the village, with the marks of the tools still on it. Combine it with lunch in Apollonas and the drive back along the north coast, which is the emptiest road on the island.
Understand the place
An unfinished ten-metre marble statue of a young man, abandoned in the quarry where it was cut about 2,700 years ago.
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