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The refuge situated near
to the summit of Mount
Dirfys, near Steni

Giokálio, houses the small further 4 km (2 miles) to the to the past wealth here. It is
two-room archaeological southeast, has a taverna and known today mainly for the
museum, which also doubles sunbeds. A more strenuous bottled spring water from
as an information resource for 30-km (18-mile) drive, via nearby Choneftikó and for
all of southern Évvia. Star Platanistós village and its Dr Geórgios Papanikoláou,
exhibits include a statue of photogenic waterfall, leads to Kými’s most famous son and
Herakles reclining while the enormous Potámi beach, inventor of the cervical Pap
feasting with a satyr, and a with a picturesque riverside smear test, who has a statue
grave-stele base showing, in taverna just inland. in the town’s main square.
relief, athletes training. All Mount Óhi is the backdrop A well-organized Folklore
that is visible of ancient to Kárystos, but the premier Museum contains exhibits
Kárystos is a Roman mauso- hike is not to the 1,398-m from Kymian life. Some 4 km
leum in the town centre and (4,586-ft) peak, but the three- (2.5 miles) north of Kými,
old stones worked into the hour descent north along the Metamórfosis tou Sotíros,
walls of the Venetian Boúrtzi spectacular Dimosári Gorge a 17th- century convent,
fortress on the waterfront. to the turquoise Aegean. perches on the cliff edge.
The Kárystos region is Easiest as an orga nized
famed for its lovely, if often outing, you can arrange this
windy, beaches. Psilí Ámmos, with agencies in Kárystos. 6
just behind the Apollon
Suites Hotel in town, is the Okthoniá
most sheltered. Alykés, a Οχθωνιά
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Kými ⌂ 90 km (56 miles) E of
Halkída @
Κύμη
Monument to The north road at the town of
sailors lost at ⌂ 90 km (56 miles) NE of Lépoura leads past a few
sea, Kárystos Halkída g @ Venetian towers towards the
The thriving town of villages of Okthoniá and
Kými is 4 km (2 miles) nearby Avlonári, which seem
above the port. With a more like Italian hill-towns
com man ding view of than anywhere in Greece.
the sea, this remote A Frankish castle overlooks
settlement once did the village of Okthoniá, while
very well out of silk west of Avlonári stands the
pro duc tion and mari- distinctive 14th-century
time trading; in the basilica of Agios Dimítrios, the
1880s, 45 ships from Kými largest Byzantine church in
plied the Aegean sea Évvia. Beyond the fertile fields
routes. Narrow streets that surround these villages
lined with elegant Neo- are wild beaches, such as
Classical houses testify Agios Merkoúris and Mourterí.
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