Delphi in Greece is considered the most important oracle in the antique Greek world. The holy sites are nestled on the steep slopes of the Mount Parnassus about 700 m above the Pleistos River. Please watch the video You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button […]
Grossmugl Glaubendorf
Near Grossmugl, a village in Lower Austria, is a giant tumulus. The 3,500-year-old hill grave is the largest in Central Europe with a height of 18 m. At that time, social hierarchies have already been emerged here. Please watch the video here!!! You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual […]
Evora – UNESCO World Heritage Site in Portugal
Evora, located in the heart of Portugal – the Alentejo region – was already inhabited in the Neolithic period. Evora was extended during the colonization of Portugal by the Romans. A huge viaduct, the castle and the beautiful Diana Temple are surviving memorials of this period. Later the Moors enlarged the castle and built a […]
Methoni – Peloponnese
Methoni lies on the southwestern tip of the Peloponnese. Already during the second Peloponnesian War the people of Messene built a fortification against the Spartans here. Under the Romans, Mark Anthony embellished it on a grand scale. The massive city walls were built by the Byzantines and Venetians. In the Greek War of Independence, French troops […]
Olympia – the venue of the first Olympic Games
Olympia is located in the northwest of the Peloponnese. Olympia is known as the venue of the first Olympic Games which took place here from the 7th Century BC up to the 5th Century AD. The sanctuary and the oracle are less known. The sanctuary was founded on the remains of the tumulus which was […]
Lindos
Lindos is a town on the island of Rhodes in the Dodecanese, Greece. Most likely it was settled by the Mycenaeans and probably also by the Minoans. Lindos experienced the first golden age with the Dorians. In the 11th Century BC, Lindos developed quickly into a trading center between Greeks and Phoenicians, not least because […]