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Ancient Greek and Roman sacred sites in Greece
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Delos
Municipality of Mykonos, Aegean, Greece
Delos stands where light entered the world. According to Greek myth, this tiny island was floating and rootless until Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis here, and the...
Epidauros
Municipal Unit of Epidavros, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece
Epidauros was the most important healing sanctuary in the ancient Greek world. Here, in an intimate valley of the Peloponnese, patients came to sleep in the sacred...
Delphi
Municipal Unit of Delphi, Thessaly and Central Greece, Greece
Delphi stands where the Greeks placed the center of the world. Zeus sent eagles from the ends of the earth; where they crossed, he set the omphalos, the navel stone....
Dodona
Μαντείο, Epirus and Western Macedonia, Greece
For over a millennium, ordinary Greeks climbed to this remote Epirote valley to pose life's most urgent questions to the sacred oak of Zeus....
Petsofas Minoan Peak Sanctuary
Itanos Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
Petsofas rises above the eastern Cretan coast near Palekastro, a modest summit that served for centuries as one of the most important peak sanctuaries of the Minoan...
Pyrgos Minoan Temple
Ierapetra Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
On a steep hill above the south coast of Crete, the ruins of Myrtos-Pyrgos hold the remains of a Bronze Age settlement that flourished for nearly eight centuries....
Tylissos Minoan Temple
Tylissos Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
In the foothills southwest of Heraklion, the ruins of three grand Minoan villas stand among olive groves at the edge of the modern village of Tylissos....
Mt. Olympus
Dion - Olympos Municipality, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
Mount Olympus rises 2,917 meters above the Pierian plain in northern Greece, the highest peak in the country and the most mythologically significant mountain in Western...
Trofonion Oracle, Livadia, Greece
Levadia Municipal Unit, Thessaly and Central Greece, Greece
In the Boeotian town of Livadia, a limestone gorge opens where the Herkyna River emerges from the rock....
Olympia
Municipal Unit of Archea Olympia, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece
Olympia stands in the green valley of the Alpheios River in the western Peloponnese, the supreme Panhellenic sanctuary of Zeus and the site where, for over a thousand...
Isthmia
Municipal Unit of Loutraki - Perachora, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece
Isthmia may refer to: Isthmia (sanctuary) at the east side of the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece The ancient Isthmian Games, held at the sanctuary Temple of Isthmia,
Aegina
Mesagros, Attica, Greece
Aegina (; Greek: Αίγινα pronounced [ˈeɣina]; Ancient Greek: Αἴγῑνα) is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, 27 km (17 mi) from Athens....
Cape Sounion
Lavreotiki Municipal Unit, Attica, Greece
Fifteen white marble columns stand on a headland sixty meters above the sea, marking the southernmost point of Attica....
Mt. Juktas Minoan Peak Sanctuary, Crete
Archanes Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
Mount Juktas rises 811 meters above the Cretan lowlands, its summit crowned by the remains of the most important peak sanctuary in Minoan civilization and a Venetian-era...
Parthenon
Athens, Attica, Greece
The Parthenon rises from the limestone summit of the Acropolis, a Doric temple of Pentelic marble built to house Athena and to declare what Athens believed a civilization...
Kamares Cave
Tybakio Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
High on the southern face of Mount Ida, the highest mountain in Crete, a vast arched entrance opens into the mountain at nearly 1,700 meters....
Asklepion shrine
Athens, Attica, Greece
On the south slope of the Acropolis, tucked against the rock below the Parthenon, the Asclepieion of Athens preserves the remains of a sanctuary where the sick once came...
Ephyra
Μεσοπόταμο, Epirus and Western Macedonia, Greece
Ephyra may refer to:
Mycenae
Municipal Unit of Mykines, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece
Mycenae rises from a rocky spur between two ravines in the northeastern Peloponnese, commanding the Argive Plain with a strategic authority that persists in the bones of...
Island of Kos
Kos, Aegean, Greece
Island of Kos is a ancient healing temple of sacred significance.
Palace of Knossos
Heraklion Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
The Palace of Knossos spreads across a low hill five kilometers south of Heraklion, the ceremonial and sacred center of the first advanced civilization to emerge in Europe....
Eleusis
Municipal Unit of Elefsina, Attica, Greece
Eleusis is a religious of sacred significance.
Mt. Pelion
Municipal Unit of Zagora, Thessaly and Central Greece, Greece
Mount Pelion rises as a forested peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea in Thessaly, Greece....
Mt. Dicti
Psichro, Region of Crete, Greece
Mount Dikti rises 2,148 meters above eastern Crete, anchoring a sacred landscape that spans eight millennia of continuous human reverence....
Knossos
Heraklion Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
Knossos rises from the hills south of Heraklion on Crete, the ceremonial and sacred heart of the Minoan civilization....
Oracle at Cape Tainaron (Mataram), Peloponnese, Greece
East Mani Municipal Unit, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece
Cape Tainaron stands at the southern tip of the Mani Peninsula, where the Greek mainland dissolves into the convergence of three seas....
Mt. Ida
Kouroutes, Region of Crete, Greece
Mount Ida rises 2,456 meters above central Crete, the island's highest point and one of the most layered sacred landscapes in the Mediterranean....
Mount Parnitha
Regional Unit of East Attica, Attica, Greece
Mount Parnitha rises as the highest peak in Attica, a forested wilderness just thirty kilometers north of Athens....
Argos
Municipal Unit of Mykines, Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian, Greece
Argos most often refers to: Argos, Peloponnese, a city in Argolis, Greece Argus (Greek myth), several characters in Greek mythology Argos (retailer), a catalogue retailer.....
Diktaion Andron Cave
Psichro, Region of Crete, Greece
High on the slopes of Mount Dicte, above the enclosed bowl of the Lassithi Plateau, the Diktaion Andron opens into the limestone of Crete like a wound in the surface of...
Traostalos Minoan Peak Sanctuary
Itanos Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
On a windswept plateau at 515 meters above the southeastern coast of Crete, Minoan worshippers climbed for five hundred years to leave clay figurines, model ships, and...
Lato
Agios Nikolaos Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
High on a mountain saddle in eastern Crete, the ruins of Lato spread across a ridge overlooking the Gulf of Mirabello....
Mt. Kofinas Minoan Peak Sanctuary, Crete
Kofinas Municipal Unit, Region of Crete, Greece
At 1,231 metres, Mt. Kofinas rises as the highest peak of the Asterousia range, the southernmost mountain chain in Europe....
Omphalos Stone
Greece
In Greek belief Zeus released two eagles from opposite ends of the earth; they crossed paths above Delphi, and the omphalos was set there to mark the navel of the world....
Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidauros
Epidauros, Epidauros, Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece
Epidauros was the principal sanctuary of Asklepios, Greek god of healing, and the mother-shrine from which all other Asklepieia drew their authority....
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