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Faros
The name of the place is obviously owed to the installation
of a lighthouse, a big coastal lamp, in the entry
of harbour for the navigation. The lighthouse is
found today in the SE entry of the harbour and adjacent
to the monastery of Stavros, from which the view
is magnificent.
Faros located in the SE part of Sifnos and it is
considered the safest harbour of island. Faros was
the official harbour of the island until 1883. It
is a quiet fish village with graphic possessed sandy
beaches called Fasolou, Faros and Glyfo. From here
begins the path that leads to Chrysopigi. In the
western inlet of the gulf ruins from the facilities
of mineral are saved where the boats where loaded
to transport the minerals to Lavrio. In the bight
and in the western end of sandy beach of Faros exists
the foundations ancient friktorias.
In the entry of the harbour it is extended the peninsula
of Chrysopigi, a rocky island broken away from the
land, on which the monastery of Panagia Chrisopigi
(1650) is found, the boss of Sifnos. |
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