There are a lot of cool ruins in Greece. Some of them are what I call ancient ruins. They are thousands of years old. Others are only hundreds of years old. In this post, I’ll talk about the ancient ruins we visited. In the next post, I’ll cover the medieval ruins.
The first ruins we saw were in Athens. It was the Acropolis. There were a few thunderstorms the first day we were in Greece, so the ruins were closed to enter them. We planned on going to the museum by the Acropolis since there was a chance of rain, but they closed it because of the storms. I didn’t understand that. For goodness sake, there was a roof on it!
The ruins were far different from what you see in Indiana. The walk around it was very pretty and well maintained. Since we couldn’t go inside, we didn’t learn a lot about it.
The next day, we drove a few hours to Delphi. Delphi were ruins on the side of a mountain that dated back to 600 B.C. Delphi had a cool theater and stadium that were in good shape. I doubt many world records were set in the stadium because it was at the top of the mountain and I suppose the runners would be worn out by the time they got there. Ha! Ha!
At one time Delphi was considered the center of the world. It was also known for the Oracle of Delphi. at the time, people often consulted Oracles and the one at Delphi was quite famous.
Another famous ruin I visited was at Olympia. Olympia was where the first Olympics were held in 776 B.C. The Olympic torch is still lit there before being transported to where the Olympics are held. There is also a famous temple of Zeus there. It was a large ruin with only a few buildings and columns still standing.
Olympia was where Martha stayed in the car and made her video about eating pretzels with olives. I had to walk quite a ways to get to the site as there were a lot of people there.
The last ancient ruin we visited was Corinth. The town today is called Korinthos. We stayed in the town that night and in the morning I wanted to figure out where the ruin was. I found out it was only about 2 blocks away. That worked out well.
Corinth had some standing walls and columns and had a quite well-preserved street. I saw the ruin of the building that they think was used when Paul was brought before Gallio for trial. Martha was able to come with me there as they had a sidewalk and allowed us to go straight through on it. She was able to also go into the museum at Delphi and walk around the Acropolis.
One cool thing about seeing these places is that when I read about Paul’s travels in the Bible, now I know where some of the places are.
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