Folegandros · Ano Meria & the north · Άγιος Γεώργιος, Κάστελλος

Agios Georgios and Kastelos, the island's far north

At the far northern tip of Folegandros, about 10 km from Chora, the dirt road from Ano Meria comes down to the chapel of Agios Georgios and its mostly sandy beach, with a little shade under the trees, and, 500 m before it, the sand-and-pebble cove of Lygaria. Just beyond, on the small rocky peninsula of Kastelos, excavations have uncovered the ruins of the island's oldest known settlement, a small village of the Early Cycladic II period, around the middle of the 3rd millennium BC.