(November 2012) Natura 2000 is a European network of sites (Sites of Community Importance—Special Conservation Areas and Special Protection Areas), which operates under common European rules. In these areas certain management measures must be implemented, degradation and significant nuisance should be avoided, and an appropriate impact assessment of plans, projects and activities should be implemented. […]
Report of Ornithological Company – Northern Syros and Islets
A re-evaluation program of 69 Important Bird Areas A re-evaluation program of 69 Important Bird Areas to be designated as Special Protection Areas for avian fauna. Draft of action plans to protect priority species. Area Folder: GR4220032 Northern Syros and islets You can download it here
The archaeological sites of Apano Meria at Syros
In Apano Meria the most important and most famous archaeological sites of Syros are: Halandriani with a cemetery of 600 or more excavated graves dates back to the Early Cycladic period. Kastri, acropolis and settlement of the same period. The bay of “Grammata” with the engraved inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Byzantine period. Ferekedis cave with […]
The First Inhabitants of Syros
by François Aron The French archaeologist, François Aron, traveled to Syros in the 1980s and, by doing surface research, attempted, on the basis of archaeological finds, to locate prehistoric habitation places on the island. The findings of his research were published in 1995 in Syros Letters, Vol. 30, from where we report here the […]
The excavations in Chalandriani
By Chr. Tsountas In 1899, Chr. Tsountas published in the Archaeological Journal the results of the excavations that he made in Chalandriani, where he excavated about 600 graves of the early Cycladic Era (about 2,700 BC). You can access the published document here Translated by Constantine Hatziadoniu
The archaeological site of Chalandriani – Kastri
Sites and their Dating By Marisa Marthari Chalandriani and Kastri are located on the northeastern coast of the mountainous North Syros or Apano Meria. They look towards Tinos and Andros. Chalandra is the name of a small fertile plateau extending to the sea through two rocky slopes. At its highest point in the south there […]
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Pherecydes Cave
Pherecydes the Syriot Excerpts from the book by Evangelos N. Roussos, about the philosopher Pherecydes who was born in Syros in the 6th century BC. “The tradition of heliotrope in Syros as a work of Pherecydes must be based on the description of Homer Syris (Syros) in Odyssey, which is located Above of Ortyia (Delos), […]
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Well Hellenico
by Iosef Stephanou Summary In the northern part of Syros, in the village San Michael, there exists an ancient well bearing the name “Hellenico [Greek]”, exactly like the name of the place where it was found around the end of the 19thcentury. The quality, the accuracy and the particular details of its construction, the […]
Vegetation and Biotopes in Syros
by Achilles Dimitropoulos There are two points of view related to the woodland character of the Cyclades through time. According to the first one these islands were always barren with very limited vegetation. Their landscape has changed very little with the passage of time. The second view suggests that these islands were green and forested […]
Apano Meria is Syros’ soul
The natural scenery of Apano Meria By Achilles Dimitropoulos Here we meet some of the oldest vestiges of human presence on the island, these barren lands which for centuries have nurtured the people of Syros, these dry mountain tops will stay there to remind us of an old, different way of life, when the […]