<< Our Photo Pages >> Leno Tower - Stone Fort or Dun in Greece in Greek Islands
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Roman, Greek and ClassicalSite Name: Leno Tower Alternative Name: Lino Tower, Tower of LinosCountry: Greece
NOTE: This site is 1.259 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Greek Islands Type: Stone Fort or Dun
Nearest Town: Chora Nearest Village: Platys Gialos
Latitude: 37.424302N Longitude: 25.343833E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Leno Tower is an ancient circular Hellenistic fortification perched atop a rocky outcropping in the region of Leno, Mykonos.
It is notable as the location where a marble 'inscription of synoecism' was discovered, detailing a new ritual calendar to mark the synoecism of Mykonos' two ancient towns.
Today, the site is largely ruined. At its highest, the tower is preserved to a height of only 3 or 4 stones. A low wall juts out of the south side of the tower, connecting it to another ancient building: a small rectangular structure which was rebuilt with smaller stones at some point long after the building's original construction.
Also on the site are two Byzantine-era stone chapels, built with stones repurposed from the ancient site. Many pieces of worked marble from a now-lost ancient sanctuary were repurposed as building stones for these chapels.
Incision marks can be identified on a large nearby boulder, and many of the rough stone farm-fences in the area include giant granite blocks stolen from the tower long ago.
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