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Extract from the Skyros Town Travel Guides:
SKYROS TOWN
(also known as Hori), with its decidedly Cycladic architecture, sits on the landward side of a high rock rising precipitously from the coast. According to legend, King Lycomedes pushed Theseus to his death from its summit. The town doesn't feel like a resort, with its workaday atmosphere, but away from the tattier outskirts is decidedly picturesque. The older and more intriguing parts of town are higher up, climbing towards the
kstro
, a mainly Byzantine building, built on the site of the ancient
acropolis
. There are few traces of the acropolis, although remains of the classical city walls sur... read the whole Skyros Town Travel Guides...
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