![]() Paros is full of sandy beaches so you’re spoilt for choice. Marked paths lead to two huge entrances which you can explore with a torch and strong shoes. This was the end of a tradition that began in 3200 BC and the stone was extracted from deep galleries by the light of oil lamps. ![]() The ancient marble mines lie just outside Lefkes at Marathi and the last slabs were quarried in the nineteenth century for Napoleon’s tomb. ![]() Paros is known for the purity and transparency of its marble and in classical times supplied around 70% of Greek sculpture. A Byzantine footpath passes through here, linking both coasts, a great walk if you have the time. Nowadays it’s a sleepy little place with narrow alleys home to numerous cats. It sits in a natural amphitheatre surrounded by ruined windmills on the skyline, its white houses tumbling down the hillside. I climb up to Lefkes in the centre of the island, the capital of Paros during the middle Ages when piracy was rife. ![]()
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