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No facilities of lodging, food and drink are offered at the beach, but you may visit the ruins of ancient Lissos, which is in the interior, approximately an hour walk. Lissos is an archaeological site and you may access it on foot from Sougia within 2 hours. Lissos was a harbour of the Dorian city of Elyros, near the modern-day village of Rodovani. Both Elyros and its two harbours, Sougia and Lissos, flourished in the Hellenistic, Roman and First Byzantine periods, and were destroyed by the Saracen Arabs who arrived in large numbers from Spain. It is said that, at its, peak, Elyros had 30,000 inhabitants. It also minted its own coinage, as did Lissos. The Lissos coin depicted the head of the goddess Artemis on one side and a dolphin on the reverse.
Hiking in the area with the Naturalist club Heraklion (www.fysi.gr): Agia Irini gorge - Sougia beach
Photos by www.fysi.gr Hiking with the Naturalist Club Heraklion (fysi.gr):
Our walk began just outside (west) of the village Sougia. The path: Sougia port - Lissos gorge - Lissos ancient site - Lissos Beach
Photos by the Naturalist Club Heraklion - Fysi.gr
In the summer of 2011 I spent two weeks on the south-west coast of Crete, Greece hiking along the coastal paths connecting dramatic gorges, paradisal beaches, ancient sites and roadless settlements. This is the first of three videos showing the walk from Paleohora to Sougia, a walk which took in the ancient site of Lissos.
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