Aristotle's Stagira and Xerxes' canal
Two stops from history: the canal a Persian king dug past Nea Roda, and the town where Aristotle was born.
- 5 km to the canal · 35 to 43 km to Stagira
Xerxes' canal
Between 483 and 480 BC the Persian king Xerxes had a canal dug across this neck, so his fleet would not round the cape of Athos. Little is left to see: a shallow line across the land between Nea Roda and Tripiti, clearest from the air.
Ancient Stagira
Where Aristotle was born, in 384 BC. The walls and the streets of the old town run over a small headland above the sea, 43 km from Komitsa.
Aristotle Park
A hillside park in the village of Stagira, 35 km away, with Aristotle's statue, a view over the gulf and simple instruments, a sundial, a pendulum and a compass, that show the physics he wrote about.
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On the map Xerxes' canal on Wikipedia Ancient Stagira on Wikipedia
Stay next door
Porto Komitsa is on Komitsa beach, near Nea Roda: twenty apartments, one beach.
Next door to Mount Athos