Archaeological site · Naxos, Greece

The unfinished kouros

A ten-metre marble figure lying where it cracked in the quarry 2,600 years ago.

The unfinished kouros is in Naxos, and this is Naxos — the atlas draws Europe in one projection whose finest unit is about four kilometres, so it maps the town rather than the street. The frame is about 580 km across and 200 km deep at this latitude. Coastline from Natural Earth, public domain. The full map →

Give it 45 minutes · Open year-round · 37.140°N, 25.520°E

Accessibility

Not documented. EuropeDoor holds no step-free access, hearing loop or accessible toilet information for any place, and inventing it would be worse than the gap — the position in full.

Getting there

Ferries are the network: fast catamarans and slow open-deck boats, both booked online and both cancelled by wind. All of Greece →

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Naxos · The Islands · Greece

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Other places in Naxos

Portara

A temple doorway on an islet at the harbour, left standing because the marble was too big to steal.

Monument

The record

What this atlas holds about The unfinished kouros, and nothing it does not.

Kind: Archaeological site
Give it: 45 minutes
Season: Open year-round
Where: 37.140°N, 25.520°E
In: Naxos