The Temple of Demeter at Sangri
The Verdict
Worth it for the setting as much as the ruins: a temple in a working field, with nobody there.
Why go
The temple was rebuilt in the 1990s using the pieces that had collapsed around it, which makes it legible without making it a fake. It stands alone among terraced fields of olives and vines, and the road up through Sangri and Chalki is one of the best drives on Naxos. Combine it with a village lunch; an hour is enough for the site itself.
Understand the place
A small fourth-century BC marble temple rebuilt from its own fallen stones in the middle of farmland inland from Naxos Chora.
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