Must See Archaeological Sites in Greece
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Ancient Agora of Athens
Historic archaeological site featuring ruins of ancient Greek public spaces such as temples, stoas, law courts, and monuments. It served as the political, social, and commercial center of classical Athens and holds significant cultural heritage value.
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Knossos
Knossos is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete. The site was a major center of the Minoan civilization and is known for its…
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Roman Agora of Athens
During Roman times, this square was large and surrounded by Ionic columns.
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Archaeological Site of Delphi
This vast archaeological site is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Best known for ruins of the ancient oracle through which Apollo was speaking.
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Mycenae
Mycenae is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece.
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Acropolis of Rhodes
The Acropolis of Rhodes is the acropolis, or upper town, of ancient Rhodes dating from the 5th century BC and located 3 kilometers SW from…
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Archaeological site of Kerameikos
The ancient cemetery is a mystic place where the most important ancient Greek figures are buried.
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Lindos acropolis
Lindos is an archaeological site, a fishing village and a former municipality on the island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece.
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Ancient Thera
An unbelievably extensive complex of ancient ruins of the old Greek city of Thera.
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Ancient Akrotiri
Akrotiri is a village on the island of Santorini in Greece. It is located 15 kilometers south of the capital Fira, built on the slopes of a…
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Olympia
Olympia, officially Archaia Olympia, is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological…
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Palace of Phaistos
Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality…
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Byzantine Walls
Medieval Byzantine city fortifications that once encircled the old city, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage monument.
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Ancient Kamiros
Camirus or Kamiros or Cameirus or Kameiros was a city of ancient Rhodes, in the Dodecanese, Greece.
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Temple of Aphrodite
Built in 3rd century BC, this once majestic temple dedicated to the Greek goddess of love is now a set of ruins.
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Gortyn
Gortyna was a town of ancient Crete which appears in the Homeric poems under the form of Γορτύν; but afterwards became usually Gortyna.
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Gournia
Gournia is the site of a Minoan palace complex on the island of Crete, Greece, excavated in the early 20th century by the American…
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Portara
The ruins of the ancient temple situated on a tiny islet connected by a narrow walkway to the shore are especially beautiful during sunsets.
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Archaeological Site of Aigai
Vergina is a small town in Northern Greece, part of Veria municipality in Imathia, Central Macedonia.
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Messene
Messene, officially Ancient Messene, is a local community within the regional unit of Messenia in the region of Peloponnese.
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Aptera
Aptera or Apteron was an ancient city, now an archaeological site in western Crete, a kilometre inland from the southern shore of Souda Bay…
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