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Ancient Greek and Roman sacred sites in Greece
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Amphiaraion of Oropos
Oropos, Attica, Greece
Amphiaraion of Oropos is a source-documented healing and oracular sanctuary in Attica, associated with Amphiaraos....
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...
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....
Corycian Cave
Delphi, Mount Parnassus, Phocis, Central Greece, Greece
Corycian Cave is a source-documented sacred cave in Mount Parnassus, Phocis, Central Greece, associated with Pan and the Corycian Nymphs....
Delos
Municipality of Mykonos, South 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...
Delphi
Municipal Unit of Delphi, 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....
Diktaion Andron Cave
Part of Mt. Dicti
Psichro, 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...
Dodona
Μαντείο, Epirus, 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....
Epidauros
Municipal Unit of Epidavros, Peloponnese, 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...
Kamares Cave
Tybakio Municipal Unit, 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....
Knossos
Heraklion Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece
Knossos rises from the hills south of Heraklion on Crete, the ceremonial and sacred heart of the Minoan civilization....
Lato
Agios Nikolaos Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece
High on a mountain saddle in eastern Crete, the ruins of Lato spread across a ridge overlooking the Gulf of Mirabello....
Mount Parnassus
Delphi, Phocis and Phthiotis, Central Greece, Greece
Mount Parnassus is a source-documented sacred mountain in Phocis and Phthiotis, Central Greece, associated with Apollo, Dionysus, and the Muses....
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....
Mt. Dicti
Psichro, Crete, Greece
Mount Dikti rises 2,148 meters above eastern Crete, anchoring a sacred landscape that spans eight millennia of continuous human reverence....
Mt. Ida
Kouroutes, 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....
Mt. Juktas Minoan Peak Sanctuary, Crete
Archanes Municipal Unit, 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...
Mt. Kofinas Minoan Peak Sanctuary, Crete
Kofinas Municipal Unit, Crete, Greece
At 1,231 metres, Mt. Kofinas rises as the highest peak of the Asterousia range, the southernmost mountain chain in Europe....
Mt. Olympus
Dion - Olympos Municipality, Thessaly, 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...
Mt. Pelion
Municipal Unit of Zagora, Thessaly, Greece
Mount Pelion rises as a forested peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea in Thessaly, Greece....
Mycenae
Municipal Unit of Mykines, Peloponnese, 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...
Olympia
Municipal Unit of Archea Olympia, West Greece, 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...
Omphalos Stone
Part of Delphi
Central Greece, 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....
Oracle at Cape Tainaron (Mataram), Peloponnese, Greece
East Mani Municipal Unit, Peloponnese, Greece
Cape Tainaron stands at the southern tip of the Mani Peninsula, where the Greek mainland dissolves into the convergence of three seas....
Palace of Knossos
Part of Knossos
Heraklion Municipal Unit, 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....
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...
Petsofas Minoan Peak Sanctuary
Itanos Municipal Unit, 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, 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....
Sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas
Epidauros, Mount Kynortion, Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece
Sanctuary of Apollo Maleatas is a source-documented archaeological sanctuary in Mount Kynortion, Argolis, Peloponnese, associated with Apollo Maleatas....
Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron
Vravrona, East Attica, Greece
Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron is a source-documented archaeological sanctuary in East Attica, associated with Artemis Brauronia....
Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia
Sparta, Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece
Sanctuary of Artemis Orthia is a source-documented archaeological sanctuary in Laconia, Peloponnese, associated with Orthia, later Artemis Orthia....
Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidauros
Epidauros, 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....
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae
Bassae, Oichalia, Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece
Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae is a source-documented ancient temple in Oichalia, Messenia, Peloponnese, associated with Apollo Epicurius....
Traostalos Minoan Peak Sanctuary
Itanos Municipal Unit, 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...
Trofonion Oracle, Livadia, Greece
Levadia Municipal Unit, Central Greece, Greece
In the Boeotian town of Livadia, a limestone gorge opens where the Herkyna River emerges from the rock....
Tylissos Minoan Temple
Tylissos Municipal Unit, 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....
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