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Modern Description: On the saddle of the mountain behind, just to the west of the summit marked by a triangulation post, at Pefkiá, are the remains of what, according to local tradition, was a Sanctuary of Apollo—apparently the ‘temple' to which Strabo refers in his description (Geog. X 488). (The site is best approached by circumventing the lower perimeter stone-wall of the valley from behind the stand of pine-trees. The rough path passes a huge standing rock in the middle of the valley, then rises up past a conspicuous cave entrance towards the saddle. The saddle itself has been substantially terraced for cultivation. Well in from the ridge, at the right-hand corner, in the lea of the bottom of the shoulder of the mountain, are the overgrown ruins of the temple beside a small stone hut.) In fact the visible remains here are Early Christian: some finely-turned marble columns, bases, drums and other fragments mark the site. A carved stone basin and a deep cistern lie just to the northeast.

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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