We drove from Olympia to Delphi. It is approximately three and a half hour beautiful drive. We took a break at town of Rio to see the amazing bridge of Rio. It is called Rio–Antirrio Bridge. It is one of the world's longest multi-span cable-stayed bridges and the longest of the fully suspended type. It crosses the Gulf of Corinth near Patras, linking the town of Rio on the Peloponnese peninsula to Antirrio on mainland Greece by road.
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| (View of Bridge from Beach) |
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| (On the Bridge) |
From the town of Rio you can get an amazing view of the bridge. There are many cafeteria where you can take a break and enjoy your coffee with an amazing view. Even there is a public beach you can go for swimming and relax for some time. It was time again to hit the rods and move for our destination Archaeological site of Delphi. It took almost two hours from there. To reach Delphi you have to cross this amazing bridge. The toll tax of bridge is quite high but still is worth the experience.
Once reaching Delphi we took a break for half an hour at our hotel and freshen up. As the site is open until 6 Pm and museum till 8 Pm in summers so there was no hurry. As we reached Delphi so the rains even started. Be prepared to witness rains anytime if you are visiting Delphi as it is surrounded by hills. It was time to tie up the shoes and get ready for site seeing.
We first visited the archaeological site of Delphi so that we could relate in the museum and have a better understanding. There is a combined ticket of the archaeological site and the museum. Due to rains we were not able to enjoy photography there. It served as the major site during classical times for the worship of the god Apollo. Apollo was said to have slain Python, "a dragon" who lived there and protected the navel of the Earth.
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| (View on entering the Site) |
As we entered the site we could see the ruins of the city. Most of the ruins were not identifiable they were left to your imagination. Some were in very good shape even. The first site after entering was Treasuries they held the offerings made to God Apollo. The most impressive is the now-restored Athenian Treasury, built to commemorate the Athenians' victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC.
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| (Athenian Treasury) |
Temple of Apollo it was a huge temple but now only pillars were restored and remaining are the ruins of the temple. The ruins of the Temple of Delphi visible today date from the 4th century BC, and are of a Doric building.
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| (Temple Of Apollo) |
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| (View from Top) |
Theater was the next stop. The ancient theater at Delphi was built further up the hill from the Temple of Apollo giving spectators a view of the entire sanctuary and the valley below. It was originally built in the 4th century BC.
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| (Theater) |
The last stop of the site was Stadium. It is located further up the hill, you need to walk up the hill and it’s quite far from the theater. It was originally built in the 5th century BC but was altered in later centuries. The last major remodeling took place in the 2nd century AD under the patronage of Herodes Atticus when the stone seating was built and (arched) entrance.
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| (Stadium) |
After finishing the site it was time to take a break at the cafeteria at museum and from there we headed to the museum. It was a large museum where you can find many statues, building architects, statues, pottery, pillars etc. Every item was well explained but still if you have any doubts there were representatives of museum in each room who helped us in clearing our doubts.
Once finishing the museum we visited Temple of Athena. It was almost half a kilometer from there. We walked from museum to Temple it was almost 15 minutes’ walk from there. Temple was build close to the fourth-century-BC, stands the Tholos, based on a circular plan with the remains of 20 Doric columns on the outside and 10 Corinthian columns in the interior. It was built around 380 BC, and though its exact function is unknown till date.
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| (Temple of Athena) |
So the day also ended with some nice food at the travernas which offer some good Greek and Italian foods.
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