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Extract from the Nxos Town Travel Guides:
A long causeway, built to protect the harbour to the north, connects
NXOS TOWN
(or Hra) with the islet of Paltia - the place where, according to legend, Theseus abandoned Ariadne on his way home from Crete. The famous stone
Portra
that has greeted visitors for 2500 years is the portal of a temple of Apollo, built on the orders of the tyrant Lygdamis in the sixth century BC, but never completed. Most of the town's life goes on down by the crowded port esplanade or just behind it; back streets and alleys behind the harbour lead up through low arches of the old town, Borgos, to the fortified
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