Naxos Day 4 - Sunset at Portara

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Portara is the huge marble gate of a hundred-square-foot temple that began to be built in the 6th century BC. century, probably in honor of the god Apollo, on the island of Naxos. It is located on the island of "palaces", or "island of Bacchus", at the northern end of the port of Naxos.
The construction of the temple, around 530 BC, was started by the tyrant Lygdamis, who aspired to create a temple similar to the temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens. In 524 BC. Lygdamis is decapitated by the Lacedaemonians, the works stop and so the temple remains unfinished. One possible reason that the construction of this temple was never completed is the war that broke out between Samos and Naxos. Much later, the Christians built a church on the ruins of the ancient temple, while during the Venetian period many parts of the temple were used to build the castle of Naxos.
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