On the left of S. Proiou street in Syros island, Greece, there are a plenty of traditional backstreets essential straight to the waterfront with a skilled amount of geriatric buildings once factories or warehouses of fortuitous industrialists. Away they last silent, abandoned, with beautifully decorated cornices and eaves. Without realising it we pride ourselves at the ancient south line of Hermoupolis where the aboriginal commerce and industrial factories lie. The block noted gone by the streets Folegandrou, Thermopilon, Aphrodite and the harbour street impresses with its pure industrial character. The interior of the factories is as well worthseeing, where massive beams, fossil masts, abutment the wooden roofs.

Passing in front of the present Syros Shipyards, Neorion, we are already walking in the recently built thing of the town. Neorion, which until recently numbered 750 workers approx., is one of the leading shipbuilding-and-repairing units in the country, a indispensable economic ingredient for the island which again carries on the industrial anecdote of Hermoupolis. A collection of derelict factories and other buildings in the field are Neorion belongings and within its precincts lies the dated foundry of the onetime "Elliniki Atmoploia" (=Hellenic Steamboat Company).

Nikif. Mandilara street, an interval of Stam. Proiou, ends at the roundabout (Iroon Square) from where two main roads to the villages start. On the anterior we look on the correctly and which leads to Piskopio and Kini, blameless adverse the Hospital, rises the marvelous "pellet factory", an deficient two-storey and oblong mill (with a big garret which has remained to its position). The works was masterly built with marble stones, bricks and slates from Tinos. This building has been officially recommended to condo in the impending the town Industrial Museum which testament be the one shot one in Greece.

A smaller street joins the roundabout with "Karnayio".

Here one all the more sees a fully organized wooden boat yard. The shipbuilders here and a bantam extremely down, at Tarsanas, cause all sorts of vessels of indefinite sizes and style, bright brisk sailing-boats, cruising boats, rowing boats, barges, e.t.c. Both "Karnayio" and "Tarsanas" repair hundreds of vessels from all the Cyclades every year. At this environment a bulky numeral of vessels from the island are moored - fishing-boats, lighters and cruising boats.

From Neorion to Iroon Square and then along the arterial method in relation to southern Syros we come across a worthy cipher of out of date derelict factories, spinning-mills, textile factories, flour industries and mostly tanneries occupying a ample sphere on the southern seaside of the port (Kaloutas', Dendrinos' e.t.c.). The port is completed with the limited settlement of Lazaretta dominated by the notebook of the aged Lazaretto of exceptional architecture, one of the most striking edifices.