Poliochni
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The Verdict
One of the oldest settlements in Europe, laid out in low walls on a bare hill — older than Troy, and usually empty.
Why go
Poliochni is a settlement from the fourth millennium BC, which makes it older than Troy, and it is quietly astonishing: houses with hearths and storerooms laid out along streets, some walls still a metre high, all of it fenced, signed in two languages and usually with nobody else there. The site sits on a low hill above the coast, ten minutes from the village of Kaminia by car, and it explains in one visit what the Aegean looked like before the palaces.
Understand the place
The Bronze Age settlement of Poliochni on the east coast of Lemnos, occupied from the fourth millennium BC and excavated in the twentieth century.
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