Aventuras a Pie (de Página)Porto Hydra – The Venice of the Saronic Gulf. It is a residential real estate development. It has 3.5km of canals, more than 300 houses, 3 islands connected between themselves and 9 bridges. According to its official website, construction began in the mid-1970s and it is still expanding.
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In Ancient Greece, the rivers and the caves were considered as entrances to the underworld. In this video, we are going to visit 4 famous entrances.
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1. Cape Tenaro, Mani Peninsula, Peloponense
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Archaeological+Area+Tainaro/@36.3945701,22.4890165,15.12z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sAlepotrypa+cave!3m4!1s0x136203bd541425dd:0x1743c8c9ddf9b159!8m2!3d36.4017782!4d22.486836
2. Diros Caves, Mani Peninsula, Peloponense
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Caves+of+Diros/@36.6367808,22.3818965,16z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x1361f1cd456feb07:0x97770e8c84a20473!8m2!3d36.6384449!4d22.3806668
3. Neda Waterfalls, Peloponense
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Neda+Waterfalls/@37.3970378,21.8184908,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x1360f83867be6371:0x613af4c4582e5dda!8m2!3d37.3970336!4d21.8206795
4. Trofonios Oracle, Livadia, Central Greece
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Orculo+de+Trofonio/@38.4314398,22.8758693,17.75z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x14a08eec330e4a49:0xcec2b8c4e53cf240!2sLebadea+321+00!3b1!8m2!3d38.4387082!4d22.8753993!3m4!1s0x14a08e988c694407:0x5f31d1715696d096!8m2!3d38.4315!4d22.8750064
We visited the magical castle of Agrilos, a very strange mixture of medieval castle with myths of ancient Greece.
And we reviewed the history of its creator, Harry Fournarakis.
Furthermore, we heard from Harry himself, the reason for its creation.
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Movie IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070306/
Full Movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax6hFQNud-Y
We visited the Stefanos crater, in the caldera of the volcano of the island of Nisyros.
The Stefanos crater has an elliptical shape with 185m at its narrowest point and 250m at its widest.
Its walls are 30 meters high and it is estimated to be between 3000 and 4000 years old.
The entire area has a deep sulfur odor.
The last eruptions of the volcano were between 1881-87 and were of the phreatic type.
A phreatic eruption is one that occurs when the magma of a volcano, whose temperature is extreme (600 Cº-1170 Cº), comes into contact with the ground or a surface that contains water, which evaporates rapidly causing an explosion of vapor, water, ash, stones, etc.
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In this video we explore 2 famous shipwrecks of Greece: the MS Mediterranean Sky, near Eleusis, and the Dimitrios, near Githeo and near Sparta.
I will explain their history and how to visit them.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_City_of_York
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Shipwreck+of+the+Mediterranean+Sky/@38.0257845,23.487524,15.92z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x14a1b1f7716a11fd:0xcf026191e4791b7d!8m2!3d38.0246857!4d23.4899192
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitrios_(shipwreck)
https://www.google.com/maps/@36.7863029,22.5832326,14.42z
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Panagiotis
https://www.news247.gr/afieromata/nayagio-zakynthoy-37-chronia-prin-otan-i-thalassa-gemise-paketa-apo-lathraia-tsigara.6520453.html
We visited underwater ruins in the Peloponnese, near Porto Hydra, Venice of Greece.
We thought they were the ruins of an early Christian basilica.
The ruins are easily accessible and no diving equipment is needed.
Unfortunately we couldn’t find any information about them, nor Spanish, English or Greek.
New Plevron is an impressive but rather unknown archaeological site in Greece.
It is a Hellenistic walled city, very well preserved, from 234 AC, built on a plateau at 200m altitude with spectacular views.
We visited its walls, its theater, its cisterns, its agora and a little of its history.
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Map: http://www.wondergreece.gr/v1/en/Regions/Aetoloakarnania_Prefecture/Culture/Archaelogical_sites/11729-Ancient_Plevrona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleuron_(Aetolia)
The Cave of the Seal is one of the purest and most pristine places in Corinth and has remained unknown for years due to its difficulty of access.
You can get there by boat or by a dirt road and descend 100 meters.
The cave has one hidden sandy beach, to which you can only access by walking in the water.
What makes this place special, besides the 20-meter arch is that the beach inside the cave never has direct sunlight.
Of the fortification, 80m of the eastern wall survive, which includes 2 towers and 230m of the southern wall, which includes 6 towers and several of the staircases. In addition, the southeastern gate, which is preserved intact and is 2.10m wide, reached our days. It is located in a recess and the lintel was built with stone blocks 3m long.
There is an inscription on the exterior wall, to the north of the surviving gate.
The inscription says: ΔΑΜΟΣΙΟΝ ΤΟ ΧΩΡΙΟΝ ΠΕΝΤΕ ΠΟΔΕΣ ΑΠΟ ΤΟ ΤΕΙΧΕΟΣ which could be translated as: PUBLIC ACCESS FROM 5 FEET OF THE WALL.
And it established the width of the restricted area outside the wall that had to remain free for defensive uses.
This was so that if the city were under attack, the attackers would not jump to the wall from the roofs of the neighboring houses built outside…
This inscription is believed to be from 325-300 BC.
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http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/2/gh251.jsp?obj_id=6373