Athens Greece Sights with Oracle Tours
Cape Sounion's Temple of Poseidon is a top ten major ancient site
The temple of Poseidon, standing some 60m/200 feet above the sea
at the edge of a cliff on Cape Sounion, in one of the most breathtaking
and deeply moving sites in all of Greece. And Greece has many of them.
The temple is an hour’s drive from central Athens and both the
site itself and the route leading to it are worth every minute of
the drive. The road runs along the Saronic coast and from the window
of your car or bus you can enjoy the endless and brilliant blue sea.
If traveling by car make sure you stop for a breath of sea-scented
air and a walk on the beach. You will also find many coffee shops,
fresh fish tavernas and ouzeri's along the way. The promontory of Sounion
is the southernmost tip of Attica. Here, on the windswept bluff rising
above the Aegean Sea, stands the temple of Poseidon, one of the most
impressive classical monuments to have survived to the present day.
It was built shortly after the middle of the 5th century B.C. during
the same period that saw the beginning of work on the great monuments
on the Athenian acropolis Although it is today in ruins it still dominates the surrounding countryside
from its site on the highest point of the region. Quite close by there
is also the sanctuary of the goddess Athena. Sounion receives today countless
visitors from every part of the world. There are now two roads linking
Sounion with Athens, which means that the trip can be made swiftly and
in comfort, and that it is possible to take a different route on the return
journey and thus see two entirely different facets of the Attic countryside.
Here are a few of the other Oracle Greece Taxi or Bus touring destinations you may choose from
Athens,
Cape Sounion, Ancient Corinth, Delphi & Ossios Lukas, Drama, Florina, Greneva, Chalkidiki, Imathia, Kastoria, Kavala, Kozani, Meteora, Mt. Athos, Mycenaea, Naufplion, Olympia, Pella and Vergina, Phillipi & Kavala, Dion & Mt Olympus, Sparta & Mystras, The Mani and Monemvasia,Thessaloniki,
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