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Modern Description: At (9.6km) the road divides: the right branch leads down (1.2km) to the eastern shore at Kamari, the tiny harbour for crossing to the island and monastery of Aghios Minás opposite. The few resident inhabitants of the scattered community are mostly employed in the fish farm in the straits between the two islands. Set back from the shore to the northwest above the village is the church of Aghios Nikolaos, where, ranged in its precinct to the east and south, are nearly a dozen ancient columns and stones in several materials—a lightly veined and coloured marble, some white marble from the quarry at Petrokopió, and one column in Ikarian grey granite. These possess the shape and proportions of ancient pieces rather than of Early Christian architectural elements. They point to the existence of a settlement here, probably in Roman times, some of which is now submerged in the sea, and which must have been connected with the crossing point to the island of Aghios Minás.

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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