Naxos Sights

  1. Archaeological Museum

    The Archaeological Museum is in Kastro, housed in the former Jesuit school where novelist Nikos Kazantzakis was briefly a pupil. The contents include Hellenistic and Roman terracotta figurines and some early Cycladic figurines.

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  2. Della Rocca-Barozzi Venetian Museum

    The Della Rocca-Barozzi Venetian Museum , a handsome old tower house of the 13th century, is within the Kastro ramparts (by the northwest gate). A visit takes you into the fascinating world of the historic Kastro and its Frankish and Venetian past. There are changing art exhibitions in the vaults. Tours are multilingual.

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  3. Mitropolis Museum

    The museum features fragments of a Mycenaean city of the 13th to 11th centuries BC that was abandoned because of the threat of flooding by the sea. It's a haunting place where glass panels underfoot reveal ancient foundations and larger areas of excavated buildings.

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  4. Roman Catholic Cathedral

    The Roman Catholic Cathedral, in the Kastro, is worth visiting.

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