At the top of the height of Cape Cyclops there are remains of fortifications (Cyclopeian walls) as well as a tower, which the locals have called the Tower or Throne of Cyclops (also called Psaropyrgos). Like the rest of the towers that have been identified on the island, it seems that it supervised
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The most important archaeological site is the current capital of the island, Chora, which was perhaps the site of the ancient city of Serifos, with Livadi as its port. The settlement has a fortified form with a defensive character, as can be seen from the surviving parts of the medieval Venetian
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An ancient visitable settlement was also located at the location of Megalo Chorio (perhaps this is where the ancient city was located), near which (between Chora and Megalo Livadi), there is a circular tower called the White Tower or Aspropyrgos, which dates back to Hellenistic times. Built with
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At the top of Cape Cyclops there is another circular tower, the Tower or Throne of Cyclops (or Psaropyrgos) which supervised the smooth operation of the mines, but also the port of Megali Livadi. You can visit it by driving or walking on a dirt road with good passability. According to legend, Cape
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No prehistoric site has been excavated on the island, but findings from the Proto-Cycladic period (3rd millennium BC) and the Mycenaean era (1400 - 1300 BC) are known. Ionian island that connected the 5th and 4th c. BC his fate with Athens. Ancient ore mines on the W. and S. coast (Khalara), gave
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