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Modern Description: Three-and-a-half kilometres west of Pythagóreio is Chora, the unostentatious administrative capital of the island until 1834. Its attractive streets climb steeply to the older area of the village which was built around a powerful spring that gushes from underneath a couple of cafés. Three-and-a-half kilometres west of Chora, a right branch leads up to the monastery of the Tímios Stavrós, a late 16th-century foundation, rebuilt on a much larger scale in 1838, when its arcaded outbuildings were added.
Trismegistos Geo: 54182
DARE: 38039

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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