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You might stop at Zagora , a fortified Geometric town - unique in having never been built over - that was excavated in the early 1970s. Located on a desolate, flat-topped promontory with cliffs falling away on three sides, it's worth a visit for the view alone. With your own transport, the sheltered cove of Sineti south of Hora is also worth a detour. The village of KORTHI , the end of the line, is a friendly place which is slowly waking up to its tourist potential. Set on a large sandy bay, cut off from the rest of the island by a high ridge and so relatively unspoiled, it is pleasant enough to merit spending the night at Villa Aristidou (tel 02820/62 122; ?24-33) or at the austere-looking Hotel Korthion (tel 02820/61 218; ?24-42). There are also several good seafood restaurants , and a number of pleasant cafe-bars including Erolo Cafe on the seafront. You could also take in the nearby convent of Zoodhohou Piyis (open to visitors before noon), with illuminated manuscripts and a disused weaving factory. To the north is PALEOKASTRO , a tumbledown village with a ruined Venetian castle and a legend about an old woman who betrayed the stronghold to the Turks, then jumped off the walls in remorse, landing on a rock now known as "Old Lady's Leap". In the opposite direction out of Korthi are AIDHONIA and KAPARIA , dotted with pigeon towers ( peristereones ) left by the Venetians.
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