The Best Sight in Greece

A short walk from the main road, marked by a sign, three caverns are bored into the hillside. The largest of them, the Cave of the Nymphs, is 91.4 meters (300 feet) deep. Now blocked off from entry, this is where the world-famed Parian marble was mined—the marble of the Acropolis, of the Temple of Poseidon, of Venetian palaces, and of monuments all over the world. The Venus de Milo, Nike of Samothrace, and countless other masterpieces all began here.