PYTHAGORION: Built on the ruins of the ancient city of Samos during the time of Polycrates, it condenses more than twenty - six centuries of Greek history. The town used to be known as Tigani, because of its shape, but later was named after the mathematician Pythagoras. The harbour, with its tavernas, coffee-shops, tourist shops and tables set out under the trees on one side, and its fishermen, boats and yachts of all sizes could be described as the quintessential scene of a Greek island. Licourgo Castle is in the village and slightly further out, is the airport.

HERAION: The Heraion was for centuries the main ground of worship on the island. Before the temple was built there was a small altar on that location dated from the second millennium BC. Rituals of animal sacrifices were performed on that altar that also had a wooden statue of the goddess. The 'ekatompedos' temple of Hera was primary built in the 8th century BC and then again in the 7th, when a stone podium and a wooden fencing are added.