Natumbria Agora

Little more than a square open to the canals to the north, the humble agora does not particularly stand out for its variety or quality of products. What does stand out is the quality of its seafood and the strangeness of many of them. From nearby farms and villages people come to buy seaweed with strange properties, fish and seafood of extraordinary flavor and curiosities taken from the sea. The center of the square is occupied by the Temple of Ephara Thalassea, an invocation of the goddess as daughter of the ocean itself and guide of civilization. The temple is covered with small blue and turquoise tesserae, which give it an exotic appearance. A frieze with geometric waves carved in marble runs along the upper part of the temple. The interior, simple, keeps a simple image of the goddess making water flow from her amphora. The interior walls are covered with turquoise and blue frescoes of the Sea of the Mermaid, in which islands are represented, some recognizable, and other completely strange.