Portara is known as Palace, the small island with the huge gate, which pay the attention to all visitors for the first moment. There are so many questions about that ancient monument. German Velter solved some of these questions with his discoveries who did about 1924 and 1925 when he was student.
According to his discoveries in 1924, he found that the west side of the gate was the Temple of Apollo. It was starting built from the tyrant Leegdami (523- 506 b.c) but he didn’t finished. The Gate consists of three huge marbles. The fourth, in the base, cut during the Middle Ages and created a Door of Christianic Church. The Height is 34,92m and the width is 13,77m.
The marbles transferred from the quarries of village Flerio – Melanes.
The topical legend said that the Palace is the myth of Ariadne because according to the myth she fell in the sea when she abandoned from Theseus in Naxos Island.
The view from all the directions of the height of Palace is magically beautifull. The islands of Dilos, Mykonos, Syros, Tinos, you can see clearly in the horizontal, even the neighboring Paros which took place all the sunsets in a fantastic show.
In the deep ocean to the south side appeared the islands of Irakleia, Ios, Sikinos, Folegandros and Santorini.