Private tour in Kórinthos Anastasios P
up to 7 people
12 hours
Private transportation
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Anastasios P.
I was born in the village of Delphi on the mountain Parnassos of Greece, but when I was 6 years old...
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Everyone will be enchanted by the landscapes, buildings, and beaches visited on this tour. This experience intends to be more than merely walking through monuments with monologues, but a day filled with emotions and a great cultural understanding of the history of the country: get acquainted with the soul of Greece and its rebirth through time. I think it is wonderful to complement images with emotions, and that will be my goal for us in this tour as we travel to important sites of Corinth and Kechries. The Romans demolished Corinth on 146 BC, built a new city in its place in 44 BC, and made it the provincial capital of Greece. For Christians, Corinth is well known from the 2 letters of Saint Paul in the New Testament. However, one does not need to be deeply religious or a Christian to be enchanted by a place where a person like St. Paul lived in and walked around for months.
·After pickup, we'll start by reaching the Diolkos stone road (450bc), an ancient Greek engineering marvel which allowed ships to travel overland from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean. ·We'll then see the Corinth Canal, which was finally constructed millennia later than Diolkos (in 1893). ·We'll proceed cover the area of Ancient Corinth, once a important city-state located roughly halfway between Athens and Sparta with a population of 90, 000 in 400 BC. ·Next, we'll visit Acrocorinth, an ancient castle of 575m high, and in within it we'll visit the ruins of the temple of Aphrodite (5th-4th century BC), Christian churches, mosques and a Byzantine underground cistern. ·We'll then get to Kechries port, from where St. Paul began his journey to Ephesus. Here we'll swim in the crystal clear waters (if this tour is booked during the winter months, we'd be swimming at the ultra-modern thermal spa at the city of Loutraki). ·While on Kechries, we'll have lunch at a beach restaurant. ·In the end I'll drop you off.
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Fully air conditioned, 8 seats Peugeot traveller van.
80 Ermou, Athina, 105 54 Greece
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Book with a 20% deposit!
Size:
up to 7 people
Duration:
12 hours
Transportation:
Private transportation
1
Book with a 20% deposit!
Size:
up to 7 people
Duration:
12 hours
Transportation:
Private transportation
1
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