Naxos is the largest island in the Cyclades islands. The coastline of the island is about 45 nautical miles and to the extent reaches approximately 443 square kilometres. Naxos is located right in the middle of the Aegean in the eastern Cyclades having to Mykonos to the north Amorgos to the east and Ios island to the south.
Naxos is a rich geological park of quartz rocks from non-exploited yet. The rocks are mainly quartz and marbles in alternating layers with granite blocks, relatively near to the city of Naxos and the north west part of the island, mainly sandstones exist in the peninsula of Stilis. In general Naxos has an oval shape and geophysical is distinguished as a mountainous island.
Naxos played an important role in the Cycladic culture, which seems to be started and developed between 5000 BC and 3000 BC Among the important changes that arose at that time was the development of shipping and the use of copper, ceramic and marble processing. In many locations on the island have been found many Cycladic figurines and other findings of the Cycladic culture who are now on display in Naxos Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, also a small number of them in the archaeological museum in Apiranthos. The archaeological museum of Naxos has the second largest collection of Cycladic findings after the archaeological museum in Athens.
