An important cemetery dating from the end of the 8th BC. until the 3rd AD century is located in Parikia near the port, almost on the coastal road. The most impressive find is a polyandrium (group grave), the only one found in the Aegean area and dated to the 8th BC. h. In front of the polyandrium
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The coastal road (south direction) leads to the hill of Agia Anna where a place of worship of the god of medicine Asclepius was discovered. It is a building of the 4th BC. century. The temple was open air, built around a spring. In the same area, some traces of an ancient temple dedicated to Pythian
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North of the gulf of Parikia, on a high hill opposite Delos, it was founded at the beginning of the 5th century BC. century, a sanctuary of worship of Apollo of Delius. It consists of an enclosure with an altar, a temple of Artemis, sister of Apollo, and a small area for banquets. A Cycladic
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In the bay of Naoussa, the Koukounaries stand out, a rocky citadel, which was probably inhabited by a refugee population during the last Mycenaean period and was destroyed by an earthquake. The cyclopean fortification served mainly as a support for the multi-storey building, which was located on the
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The island is one of the most important centers of the Proto-Cycladic civilization (3rd millennium BC). A number of tombs have been excavated (Plastiras, Kampos, Dryos, Lefkes, Pyrgos sites) and residential remains in Pyrgos. In today's Parikia, one of the most important centers of the
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At a distance of one kilometer from Parikia, on the road to Naoussa, there are the ruins of the early Christian basilica of the "three churches". Here, on the ruins of a three-aisled early Christian basilica from 525 - 550, three other churches were built later (in the 17th century). Much of the
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