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Ancient Aigila and Kastro
Kastro preserves the walls and internal remains of ancient Aigila above Xiropotamos, with a rare rock-cut shipshed linking the hill directly to its harbour.
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Kastro preserves the walls and internal remains of ancient Aigila above Xiropotamos, with a rare rock-cut shipshed linking the hill directly to its harbour.
The remains beside Xiropotamos mark Aigila's harbour sanctuary of Apollo, where a dedicatory statue found in 1880 connected the site to Apollo Aigilieus.
Apolytara Lighthouse stands at Antikythera's exposed southern tip, reached by a demanding path or the sea and best approached only with current local advice.
Agios Myron is Antikythera's patron church, tied to the late-eighteenth-century resettlement of the island and the community's main annual celebration.