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Modern Description: At this point you are above and a little to the west of the cave of Daskaleió at the north side of the harbour entrance. This can be visited only by boat, either from Rína or from Póthia. It is the island's largest cave, whose importance lies in the finds from Late Neolithic, Minoan and Mycenaean occupation which have been made inside it—among which is a small 17th century BC, Minoan figurine of an adorant in solid bronze, similar in many respects to those found at the mountain-top sanctuary of Aghios Giorgios sto Vouno on Kythera and which are now in the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. Immediately inside the cave is a chamber, about 25m long, from which another, with stalagmites and stalactites and a cavity full of brackish water, opens out (right) at a lower level.

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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