The Stoa of the Athenians is a long open colonnade on the Sacred Way at Delphi, built against the polygonal wall below the Temple of Apollo, where Athens displayed the naval trophies it took from its enemies in the Persian Wars. Plan the whole trip with Greece Tours. This guide covers the Stoa of the … Read more
The Antinous of Delphi is the marble statue of Antinous, the young favourite of the Roman emperor Hadrian, carved after his death and deification and found in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, ranked among the finest of the hundreds of surviving portraits of the deified youth. Plan the whole trip with Greece Tours. This … Read more
The Dancers of Delphi, also called the Acanthus Column of Dancers, are three marble maidens carved in high relief around the head of a tall votive column set up in the sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi, and now a headline masterpiece of the Delphi Archaeological Museum. Plan the whole trip with Greece Tours. This guide … Read more
The gymnasium of Delphi is the ancient athletic complex on a terrace below the main sanctuary, where athletes and youths trained on two levels holding a covered running track, an open track, a palaestra and baths, built in the fourth century BC and rebuilt under Rome. Plan the whole trip with Greece Tours. This comprehensive … Read more
Kleobis and Biton are twin brothers of Argos honoured with two Archaic marble kouroi found at Delphi and now displayed in the Delphi Archaeological Museum, among the earliest and best-preserved monumental Greek statues, carved in the early sixth century BC. Plan the whole trip with Greece Tours. This guide covers Kleobis and Biton in full: … Read more
The Siphnian Treasury The Siphnian Treasury is a small marble treasury on the Sacred Way at Delphi, raised by the island of Siphnos in the late sixth century BC to hold its offerings to Apollo. It is famed for the two standing marble maidens that replaced columns in its porch and for the continuous sculpted … Read more
The Corycian Cave The Corycian Cave is a large stalactite cavern high on the plateau of Mount Parnassus above Delphi, around 1,370 metres up, sacred in antiquity to the god Pan and the Corycian Nymphs. A cult cave rather than a built shrine, it drew worshippers up the mountain from the sanctuary of Delphi for … Read more
Hosios Loukas Monastery Hosios Loukas, also spelled Osios Loukas, is a walled Byzantine monastery near Distomo in central Greece, a UNESCO World Heritage site that holds the finest surviving middle-Byzantine mosaics in the country. Its two linked churches stand on a slope of Mount Helicon, about thirty-five kilometres east of Delphi, a natural stop on … Read more
Delphi with Kids Delphi is a rewarding place to visit with children: an open-air archaeological site that reads as an adventure, with a real ancient theatre to sit in, a stadium to run down, the bronze Charioteer and the winged Sphinx in the cool museum, and the dramatic myths of Apollo and the oracle to … Read more
Galaxidi, Greece Galaxidi is a seaside captains’ town on the north shore of the Gulf of Corinth, a quiet and elegant place of neoclassical sea-captains’ mansions ranged around two natural harbours. It sits about thirty-five kilometres down the mountain from Delphi, and its maritime past, harbourside fish tavernas, and pine-fringed coves make it the coastal … Read more