Sights

Poliochni

Kavirio sanctum

Aliki lake

exhibits in the Archaeological Museum

Platy beach

Thanos - monastery of Panagia Kakaviotissa

• the prehistoric settlement of Poliochni. Poliochni was one of the bigger centers of the precocious season of Coper and owes its growth in the leading role it had in the distribution of trade with the islands of the Aegean. It is considered the ancienter organised city of Europe and place of birth of democracy.

• Kaviria sanctum. It is dated from the 8th B.C. up to the later antiquity. The archaeological excavations revealed buildings of the archaic and hellenistic years.
Kaviri were the three sons of Hephaistos (Vulcan) and Kavirous and were worshipped in Limnos as deities.

• Hephaestia. The second most important city of Limnos in historic years.

• the Venetian castle in Myrina

• the prehistoric settlement of Myrina

• the sanctuary of Artemis in Avlona.

• the biotopes in Hortarolimni and Aliki lakes.


Museums

• Archaeological Museum of Myrina
• Folklore Museum of Portiano
• Museum of Naval tradition and sponge fishing in Nea Koutali