The Geometric settlement of Lefkandi is believed to be located on the flat hill of Xeropolis, where there is evidence for continuous habitation since the Early Bronze Age.

On the nearby Toumba hill is Lefkandi's famous Heroon, an apsidal building, approximately forty-seven metres long and ten meters wide, dating most likely to the first half of the tenth century BC. The Heroon is the largest Early Iron Age construction of this type in Greece. The building had an exterior wooden colonnade ...