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EXPERIENCE The Cyclades

Kleftiko cove, located
on the south coast of
Mílos island

17 of Kímolos. The nearby
History and Folk Museum is
MÍLOS housed in a 19th-century
mansion in the centre of
ΜΉΛΟΣ Pláka. It has costumes, four-
poster beds and handicrafts.
Steps lead to the ruined
kástro, which was built by the
k 7 m (4 miles) SE of Adámas g Adámas
@ Adámas n Harbourfront, Adámas Venetians on a volcanic plug
280 m (920 ft) above sea level.
Volcanic Mílos is the most dramatic of the Cyclades Only the houses that formed
with its extraordinary rock formations, hot springs and the outer walls of the fortress
white villages perched on cliffs. Under the Minoans remain. Above the kástro, the
and Mycenaeans the island became rich from trading church of Mésa Panagía was
bombed during World War II.
obsidian. Minerals remain the main source of the It was rebuilt and renamed
island’s wealth, although tourism is growing. Panagía Skhiniótissa (Our Lady
of the Bushes) after an icon of
1 finds, particularly the Virgin Mary appeared in a
obsidian, Mycenaean
bush where the old
Pláka pottery, painted church used to stand.
On a clifftop 4 km (2 miles) ceramics and Just below, the
above the port of Adámas, terracotta animals church of Panagía
Pláka is a pretty mix of from 3500 BC, found Thalassítra (Our
churches and white cubic at the ancient city Lady of the Sea),
houses. These blend into the of Phylakopi. The built in 1728, has
suburb of Trypití, which is most famous of the icons of Christ, the
topped by windmills. ceramics is the Lady Virgin Mary and
Pláka is believed to be sited of Phylakope, an early Ágios Elefthérios.
on the acropolis of ancient Cycladic goddess The massive
Mílos, built by the Dorians decorated in Minoan stone blocks of the
between 1100 and 800 BC. style. The Hellenistic Cyclopean walls
The town was destroyed by 4th-century-BC statue that formed the
the Athenians and later of Poseidon and city’s East Gate in
settled by the Romans. the koúros of Mílos
The principal sight is the (560 BC) found here
Archaeological Museum, its are now in the National
entrance hall dominated by Archaeological Museum Copy of Venus
a plaster copy of the Venus in Athens (p292). There de Milo, Pláka
de Milo, found on Mílos. The are also finds from the Archaeological
collection includes Neolithic neigh bouring island Museum
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