ONE OF THE MOST ANCIENT MONUMENTS OF EARLYCHRISTIAN PERIOD,TEMPLE OF PANAGIAEKATONTAPILIANI, IS SITUATED JUST A LITTLEFURTHER FROM PARIKIAS PORT.SAINT HELEN, MOTHEROF EMPEROR CONSTANTINOS, FOUND SHELTER IN PAROSISLAND AND KEPT SAFE DURING HER QUEST FOR THEHOLY CROSS IN JERUSALEM.THE EMPEROR BUILT THETEMPLE HONOURING HIS MOTHERS PLEDGE TO THE HOLYMOTHER FOR SAVING HER.ON OUR WAY TO MARATHI VILLAGE ONE CAN FINDPAROSS ANCIENT QUARRIES.THIS MARBLE WAS USED FORSEVERAL WORLD FAMOUS SCULPTURES OF ANTIQUITY LIKEHERMES OF PRAXITELIS, APHRODITE OF MILOS, TEMPLEOF APOLLO IN DELPHI AND DELOS ISLAND, TEMPLE OFZEUS IN OLYMPIA ETC.LEFKES VILLAGE IS SITUATED ON THE HIGHEST POINTOF THE ISLAND.AN ANCIENT ROAD OF THE BYZANTINEERA IS CONNECTING LEFKES WITH PRODROMOS VILLAGEAND IS WELL PRESERVED SO IT CAN OFFER A PLEASANTWALK TO ALL TREKKING FUNS.YOU CAN ALSO VISIT THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OFCYCLADIC FOLK ART COLLECTION IN NAOUSSA VILLAGE,THE MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC FOLK ART, THE ARTCOLLECTION OF BYZANTINE ERA, THE MUSEUM OF AEGEANFOLK CIVILIZATION, ALL OF WHICH PRESERVE ITEMS OFGREAT ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE.