ENTRY TYPE
Buildings |
SUMMARY
Curetes Street extends in a NW-SE orientation along the valley between the Panayir and Bülbül hills. In antiquity it was possibly called Embolos. In Hellenistic years it was the main commercial street which connected the town’s administrative centre with the harbour and the commercial agora. Curetes Street suffered great damages from the earthquakes of the 3rd and 4th centuries AD. At around 400 AD began the reconstruction of Embolos which gradually found part of its old glory, which it kept until the 6th century. In the 7th century, Curetes Street was not included in the boundaries of the new, Byzantine fortification of the town. |
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