Travel Guide Pirgos

Towards Myrtos, a road on the right on the right, a little before the bridge that marks the entrance of the village, leads you right down the road to a place where you can park your car to discover, through a signposted trail, the archaeological site of Pirgos. It is a Minoan villa inhabited at the same time as Fournou Kofiri, which was also destroyed by a fire in 2200 B.C. but which was once again occupied until 1450 B.C. From volcanic Material has been found among the rubble, supporting the thesis that the destruction of sites at the same time by the great conflagration of the sites. the eruption of the Thera volcano (on Santorini Island) is well founded.In winding down to the left, there is the largest tank in the Minoan period (approx. 1900 BC) never discovered in Crete and the remains of a paved path of the prépalatiale period leading to some kind of cemetery. Add that the view on the bay is superb.