A .THE SMALLER CYCLADES

These are the ten tiny islands lying between los and Amorgos. They are connected by ferryboat twice ·week with Piraeus via Amorgos. Isolated, lacking amenities, but blessed with an unspoiled natural environmenf and crytalline seas, they are ideal for vacationers seeking a return to nature. Most of them have been inhabited since prehistoric times and share a common history confirmed by the presence of ancient and medieval ruins. The most important finds of the prehistoric era were discovered at Keros.

B. SIKINOS (area: 41 sq. km., pop.:220): Inhabited since the Mycenaean era, it shared the fate of the other Cyclades. It was governed by the Dacotini and Gozzadini families from 1207 till the l7th century, when the Turks captured it. It was liberated in 1821. Of the old capital at Kastro virtually nothing remains, but there are ruins of the ancient city at Agia Marina and of a Heroon at Episkopi.

C. ANAFI (area: 38 sq. km., pop.: 471): First settled by the Phoenicians, it followed the

course of its neighbours. At Kastelli and Katalimatsa are some ruined houses. To the south near the ancient sanctuaç of Apollo stood the Monastery of Our Lady Kalamiotissa, of which only the church remaúns.