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Eating & Drinking
Cafes and tavernas are found higher on the street, where there's a small fountain with
mountain-spring water.
O Lefkos Pyrgos
SWEETS $
(desserts €4-6; 9am-3am Jul-Aug)
The summer-only Lefkos Pyrgos is an excellent and
inventive sweets shop run by master confectioner Georgios Stergiou and wife Dafni. Try
lemonade with honey and cinnamon, or Greek yoghurt with bitter almond. Exotic teas,
coffees and mixed drinks are also served with all-natural ingredients.
Café-Ouzeri 1900
TAVERNA $
(mains €5-9)
This flower-filled taverna offers friendly service and great mezedhes. Start
the day here with yoghurt and honey, or sample the house
tzigerosarmades
(goat with
onion, dill and spearmint). The large, colourful menu, printed to look like a newspaper, is
a take-home memento.
O Pyrgos
QUICK EATS $
(snacks;
11am-11pm)
Great views from the castle, good coffee, snacks and sweets.
Lydia
BAR
Unique both for its exotic cocktails and for being Hora's only year-round bar, Lydia is
Hora's liveliest nightspot, playing ambient music for a fun crowd.
Information
Buses and taxis stop in the square, below the village. Walk upwards along the main street
to find the OTE (Organismos Tilepikoinonion Ellados; Greece's major telecommunica-
tions carrier), Agricultural Bank, post office and
police station
(
25510 41203)
.
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Sanctuary of the Great GodsΤο Ιερό των Μεγάλων Θεών
Some 6km northeast of Kamariotissa, the
Sanctuary of the Great Gods
( 25510 41474;
combination site & museum adult/student €3/2; 9am-4pm Tue-Sun summer, 8.30am-3pm Tue-
Sun winter)
is one of Greece's most mysterious archaeological sites. The Thracians built
this temple to their fertility deities around 1000 BC. By the 5th century BC, the secret
