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Modern Description: The principal centre of this area of the island – an open landscape of volcanic hills framed by the mountain massif of Dirfys to the west and by the sea to the east, dotted with robust towers on the hill-tops – is the attractive village of Avlonári (20 km). Its narrow streets of balconied houses wind up to the summit of a hill, crowned by one of Euboea's best preserved Frankish towers, erected in 1260 over ancient foundations on the site of what is believed to have been an ancient sanctuary of Apollo.

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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