At the Lefkata cape (or Niras or Kavo tis Kyras or Kavo Doukatos) are located the ruins of the temple of Apollo. At the sanctuary of Lefkata Apollo, patron of sailors, pan-Hellenic holidays were held annually at the beginning of Spring. Poets of the 6th century BC century associate the god with love passion and the suicide of lovers. It is said that lovers desperate from love passion jumped from the famous Kavo tis Kyras. It is said that in this way Aphrodite was freed from her love for Adonis, the poetess Sappho from her own passion as well as Cephalus from his love for Pterela. Strabo (1st BC-1st AD) connects the sanctuary of Apollo with the annual ritual cleansing of the city during which a convict (the bastard) was thrown into the sea in order to banish evil from the island.
Editor: Niki Kalopaidis