GIS platform: Routes of Metals

The dynamic digital maps include the following sightseeing routes-trails:

• For Sifnos, the first route is in the NE part of the island, starts from Katavatos and ends at Aghios Sostis, where the oldest silver-lead mines in the Cyclades area are preserved. The second route, in the southern part of the island, from “Porta tou Farou” to the loading ramp in Apokofto, area of the famous gold mines of Sifnos, which ends in Skali and Kasela in “Platy Gyalos”, via Chrysopigi and “Aspros Pyrgos”.
• In Serifos, the first route starts from Chora of Serifos at Skouries in Abessalos, where there is the largest concentration of ancient excavations in the Cyclades and then through the path to Flea, where the homonymous ancient tower is also located, ends at Plakalona and Megalo Livadi, which is a declared archaeological site. The second route in Serifos is the path from Skouries to Mia Chorio, in the archaeological site of the “Aspros Pyrgos” (White Tower), and through Aghia Triada it ends at “Megalo Livadi” or by a path around the “Kastro Tis Grias”, where it ends at Koutalas, the center of the newest mining.
• In Kythnos, the first route starts from Dryopida and through “Spilaio Katafiki” (Cave Katafiki) ends at Lefkes, an area of a prehistoric mine and copper smelting site. The second route, in NW Kythnos, starts from “Prophitis Ilias”, passes through Kakovolos and Mersinia and ends in Kolona, crossing an area with a large number of archaeo-mining/metallurgical sites, which is a proclaimed archaeological site.
• In the area of Ashgata, Cyprus, the three touring routes-paths start: the first from the Center for the Promotion of the Physical and Geo-Metallurgical Heritage of Ashgata and ends at the site of Mersinouthkia, in the gallery of a mine. From there the second route starts and ends at the site of Plathkies, where ancient ruins and Roman galleys are found, while the third route starts from the site of Plathkies and ends at the site of Maurithkia.