Aventuras a Pie (de Página)The Examilia quarry was an important source of stone, not only for the large works nearby the Corinth Isthmus, such as the Examilia Wall and Acrocorinth, but also for works in distant places like Athens.
In this video, we explore the area, including some ruins never before filmed.
We explore the city of Elea, the first classical city of Epirus and probably the most unknown archaeological site in all of Greece.
This archaeological site can only be visited on Saturdays and Sundays from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm and the entrance costs 3 euros per person.
Unfortunately there is no public transport, it can only be accessed by car because the road is in a ruined state.
In this video, we visit the necromanteio or “oracle of the dead”, the only one throughout all of Greece.
In this sanctuary, dedicated to Hades and to Persephone, it is found in excellent condition.
The Examilia Wall, or Justinian’s Wall, was a large wall that protected against land attacks in the Peloponnese.
It was built during Byzantine times and repaired many times. In this video, we visit 4 sections of the wall, the fortification, and other sites, as well as explaining its history.
In this video, we are going to explore the ruins of Isthmus, located on the Isthmus of Corinth, a few meters from the Corinth Canal and we are going to tell the story of the Isthmian Games, the Panhellenic games that were held at this site in honor of Poseidon.
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.
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 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.
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.