Naxos Temple of Apollo secured after visitor lifts ancient stone

File photo. [InTimeNews]

A imperishable obstruction has been installed astir the Temple of Apollo, besides known arsenic Portara, connected the Aegean land of Naxos, pursuing a July incidental successful which a tourist was photographed lifting an past stone from the monument.

The Ministry of Culture said the task was carried retired by the Ephorate of Antiquities of the Cyclades arsenic primitively planned, contempt objections from the Municipality of Naxos.

In the aforesaid statement, the ministry criticized municipal authorities implicit the caller apprehension of members of the Ephorate of Antiquities, calling the incidental “inexcusable.”

The ministry besides noted that the Municipality of Naxos has withdrawn its ineligible petition for the contiguous removal of the temporary obstruction surrounding the 6th-century BC temple.