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Modern Description: Visible below on the coast is the small church of Aghia Marina, which is reached by following the main road south out of Spetses town and turning left just at the edge of habitation. The church is at the tip of a small projection of land with bays to either side: this configuration – two harbours and a rudimentarily fortifiable promontory – gave rise to habitation in earliest times. Excavations around the church have revealed the existence of a substantial settlement of the mid-3rd millennium BC (Early Helladic II), whose pottery finds, now in the Spetses Museum, show contacts with the mainland and the Cyclades. There are traces of later Mycenaean habitation on the site as well.
Trismegistos Geo: 60759

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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