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Modern Description: A sequence of ancient ‘lighthouses' or signalling points punctuated the eastern seaboard of Thasos. The sites of at least four of these have been located. The few remains of the first in the chain, nearest to Liménas, can be seen in the northeast corner of the promontory of Evraiokastro, north of the port; while a second, now reconstructed to a height of three courses of masonry, is above the promontory of Fanari, 1.7 km southeast of Evraiokastro point (best reached by the path north from the resort of Makríammos on the coast, east of Liménas). The third at Pyrgos point (9 km southeast of Evraiokastro) is the largest and most significant one (discussed below). The last of the series is on the south coast at Vátheia, close to the Monastery of Archangelos, just beyond the main marble quarries at Alyki. There may have been others which have since disappeared. Their presence is a measure not of the hazardousness of the coast (which by Aegean standards is relatively benign), but of the quantity of important marine traffic that used this route and the seriousness with which Thasos maintained its safety and security.
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(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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