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Is the islands port and capital, a typical Cycladic town with narrow streets and classical cycladic cubed houses. Chora is built on a hillside to the northwest side of the island. It looks impressive with its Venetian castle at the upper part of the town, the most romantic location from where to enjoy the sunset. Interesting monuments are to be found all over the town like Byzantine churches, the castle itself and traces of Mycenaean building, as well as the Archaeological museum with Mycenaean pottery and Cycladic figurines and Portara a huge portal of the unfinished temple of Apollo, which you should visit. The Chora of Naxos is a very lively town. Most of the people walk up and down the waterfront where numerous bars, discos, café, taverns, restaurants, souvenir shops and boutiques are concentrated.

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