In this video, we explore the underwater ruins in Laurion area in Greece, famous in antiquity for the silver mines, visiting 2 amazing beaches: Pounta Zeza and Limani Pasa.
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The Palace of Nestor
The Palace of Nestor is, along with Mycenae and Tiryns, one of the most important archaeological sites of the Minoan civilization and of Ancient Greece. It is not only the best preserved palace of that civilization, but where the most information has been found about it, thanks to the discovery of clay tablets, written in Linear B.
On our day’s adventure we are going to explore in detail the known as “Palace of Nestor”, visit briefly the palace of Iklaina in the vicinity, as well as Minoan tombs in the area.
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The fortress of Siphas
In reality, it is a 4th century BC fortification in good state of conservation, that extends underwater and formed part of a network of fortifications to avoid an enemy attack.
In this video we visit Sifas and other fortresses of the same era: Xironomi, Tisbe and Platea.
Fortress of Aigosthena: https://youtu.be/LaeFJ5mmcJA
Fortress of Eleuteras: https://youtu.be/Ctgkqn7Y56E
In this second part we return to Cenchreae to visit its less known side, its ruins underwater.
The “sunken city” of Old Epidaurus/Palea Epidavros (in Greek) is probably the most popular and known of the underwater ruins of Greece.
However, and unknown to the general public, there are other ruins in the vicinity beyond the famous “Roman villa” and the buildings that surround it, and in this video we will explore those ruins.
The sunken city of Old Epidaurus/Palea Epidavros (Part 1): https://youtu.be/c3D_oyYAVIA
The “sunken city” of Old Epidaurus (Palea Epidavros) is composed of a set of buildings, between 1-2 meters of depth under the sea, about 20 meters from the coast, in a Old Epidaurus beach in the east of Peloponnese, in Greece.
The jewel of the sunken city is the Roman mansion, where there are remains of wine amphorae.
The place is free of charge and open 24 hours a day.
Location Old Epidaurus (Palea Epidavros): https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sunken+City+of+Epidaurus/@37.6203471,23.1857877,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x149f8825dd3da0bd:0x4987046429cff02e!8m2!3d37.6257991!4d23.1576844
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.