The American Express Pocket Guide to Greece [antikvár]

How to use this book / The American Express Pocket Guide to Greece is an encyclopedia of travel information, organized in the sections listed on the previous page. There is also a comprehensive index (pages 230-240) and full-color maps at the end of the book. For easy reference, all major sections (Sights and places of interest. Hotels, Restaurants) and other sections as far as possible are arranged alphabetically. For the organization of the book as a whole, see Contents. Note particularly that there are two separate A-Z sections in the description of Greece: the Mainland and Peloponnese A~Z (usually abbreviated to Mainland A-Z) and the Greek Islands A~Z (usually abbreviated to Islands A-Z). For places that do not have individual entries, see the Index. Abbreviations As far as possible only standard abbreviations have been used. These include days of the week and months, points of the compass (n, s, e and w), street names (Ave., Sq.) Saint (St), rooms (rms), C for century, and measurements. Bold type Bold type is used in running text primarily for emphasis, to draw attention to something of special interest or importance. It is also used in this way to pick out places - shops or minor museums, for instance - that do not have full entries of their own. In such cases it is often followed in brackets by the address, telephone number, and details of opening times, printed in italics. Cross-references A special type has been used for cross-references. Whenever a place or section title is printed in sans serif italics (for example Athens/Sights or Basic information) in the text, this indicates that you can turn to the appropriate heading in the book for further information. For added convenience, the running heads, printed at the top corner of the page, always corresFK)nd with these cross-references. How entries are organized Náxos ^ _ Map 12J9. 6km (3.75 miles) e of Paros: 194km (121 miles) be of Piraeus. 29km (18 miles) long by 19km (12 miles) wide. ~ Getting there: By ferry, from Piraeus. Mykonos. Paros. Syros andThira. Getting around: By bus to all villages. Taxiand garage facilities available. Population: 14.000. _ Escaping from Crete, Theseus abandoned Ariadne on Naxos, the largest of the Cyclades. But Minos' daughter advanced into a superior league, from a mortal to a divine lover, by granting her favors to the god Dionysos as he made his triumphal progress through the Aegean (see Mythology in Culture, history_ and background. So real to the Greeks is their mythology that the islet, connected to the harbor by an ancient causeway, is called Palatia, the supposed site of Ariadne's palace, though the emblematic marble gate is the only remains of Apollo's temple, which was begun in 522bc. The Venetian adventurer Marco Sanudo conquered the