Das Heiligtum von Gyroulas bei Sangri auf Naxos

In 1951, Nikolaos Kontoleon identified the remains of an important ancient sanctuary at the site of Gyroulas, less than one and a half kilometers south of the village of Sangri. In 1954, he uncovered a fully marble ancient temple, which had later been converted into a Christian basilica.
In 1976, his successor in directing the excavations on Naxos, Professor Vassilis Lambrinoudakis, assembled an interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and architects—also including scholars from the Technical University of Munich—to further investigate and study the finds at Gyroulas.
Following exhaustive research, the collection of architectural members scattered across the wider area, and the thorough documentation of all material, the team proceeded with the restoration of the ancient temple. They also arranged the remains of the sanctuary in a way that is intelligible to the general public and constructed a local museum to house architectural elements and sculptural votive offerings from the site, displayed in a particularly informative manner.
(Collective volume, 400 pages.)