So named according to local tradition, because of the lion that supposedly had its nest there, found later in petrified form in the village of Kantza. Surviving even after 2500 years the marble statue was placed like a lion epitaph on the tomb of the Athenian Kouri. The cave, measuring 50 by 20 meters, was used as a place of worship in ancient times; there are finds from the 4th and 5th millennium BC.