In this video, we explore 4 of the multiple German bunkers that protected the canal of the Corinth isthmus during World War II.
The bunkers are found in a ruined state, but they are easily visitable.
Author: esteban
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The story of the Corinth Canal
The Corinth Canal is an artificial canal that allows ships to navigate from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea, avoiding circumnavigating the Peloponnese peninsula, whose rocky coastline is extremely dangerous and thus saving hundreds of kilometers.
Its history involves many ups and downs, failed attempts and even battles.
Within the ruins of Tatoi, there exists a property completely open to exploration, the house of the director of Tatoi.
In this video we explore the ruins from the inside.
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Tatoi: a royal palace in ruins
In this video we explore the ruins of the royal estate of Tatoi, which belonged to the Greek royal family.
It was the childhood home of Queen Sofia of Spain, and her brother, King Constantine II of Greece.
In this video, we are not only going to visit the royal palace, but also the estate and the pantheon of the kings of Greece, while I will tell you a little history, as well as some curiosities.
In this video, we analyze how much money is needed to do the Camino de Santiago, first segregating what are the main expenses, the different types of pilgrims, tips for saving money and an approximate cost for the most common routes.
In the adventure of the day we visited the red castle of Karistos, in the Greek island of Euboia, in Greece.
The castle of a thousand years of age passed through many hands, being a Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian and Ottoman castle, before ending up in Greek hands.
In this video, we explore it in detail.
In this video, we visit the ruins of the Egyptian temple of Marathon, Greece.
In this video, we visit the ruins of the Egyptian temple to the gods, in the vicinity of Marathon, in Greece.
The temple was funded by a very rich Roman senator, named Herodes Atticus, more known for having built the odeon of Athens, and the Nymphaeum of Olympia.
Herodes Atticus had his villa in the vicinity in which his own statue and the one of his wife have been found.
The success of the Camino de Santiago is undeniable and a world phenomenon.
However, the reasons are not so clear.
In this video, I analyze a personal theory that is not related to the reasons usually cited, and that is not related to famous movies, books, or social media.
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Lerna, Greece
The archaeological site of Lerna is one of the most unknown and most fascinating in Greece.
It was a small village in the Peloponnese, not far from Tiryns and Mycenae, which is older than these 2 and older than the Pyramids of Egypt.
The site has been inhabited from 8000 years ago until the Mycenaean period and with human activity until the Roman period, when it was finally abandoned.
The most important ruins is the “house of the tiles” which is believed to have been a government building of the time, from 2500BC to 2250BC, when a fire destroyed it and a sacred mound was built on top of the ruins.
The house was desecrated 2 times, with 2 tombs 1000 years later, in the Mycenaean period.
The site includes the ruins of a house, from 5900BC, remains of a wall as well as other Mycenaean period ruins.
In mythology, Lerna was known as the lair of the Hydra, the multi-headed aquatic serpent, which lived in a swampy lake, which unfortunately no longer exists.
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The Giant Columns of Karistos
In this video, we explore an abandoned Roman quarry with several giant columns, high up on a mountain, near the city of Karistos, in the Euboean region of Greece.
The region was very well known and desired in antiquity for its marbles, which adorned the entire Roman world, from Rome to Constantinople.
Today, the region is known in Greece for the stone, to which it calls “Plaka Karistou”.
The quarry that we filmed had 9 enormous columns, plus some smaller columns and others unfinished.