Aventuras a Pie (de Página)The monastery of Dafni was built in the 6th century on the ruins of a temple dedicated to the God Apollo and today it is a world heritage site of UNESCO for its middle Byzantine art.
In this video, we explore the monastery and its history.
Cenchreae is one of the two ports of Ancient Corinth and one of the best free archaeological sites in the Peloponnese and Greece, just an hour’s drive from Athens.
In this video, we visit the most famous ruins and others 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 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 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.