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Modern Description: After passing a junction (11km), from which a branch track (right) rounds the summit of the mountain and doubles back to the cave hermitage of the Panaghia Theoskepastí above Chozoviótissa, the road descends with good views of the off-shore island of Nikouriá.
Before a sharp right bend, the church of Aghios Ioannis Prodromos (13km) at Ríchti is clearly visible below the road to the left; above it stand the ruins of a Hellenistic tower, almost 9m in diameter. The doorway was in the south side, where the wall still stands to a considerable height, constructed in parallel courses of massive, interlocking blocks of different dimensions. This is one of a chain of such towers which survey the sea-routes along the north coast and which survive in various degrees of ruination: there are a further five along the north slope between here and Katapola, and three between here and Aigiáli (including the one to the south of Asfonidilítis on the opposite, south-facing slope). Sixteen Hellenistic towers have been located on Amorgos so far.

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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