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Ancient Corinth Tour (Corinthos & Corinth Canal) Last about 5 hours

After a short stop at Corinth’s canal where you will see the most breathtaking view of a Cape with a vertical drop of 70 meters where the rocks meet the crystal clear waters of the Gulf. 

After we will visit the ancient town of Corinth (visit) where St.Paul lived and preached for two years. 

Back in the ancient times Corinth was amongst the richest cities and this is quite evident by its remains, including the huge agora (market place) and Apollo's Temple (6th c.B.C.). 

There will also be a brief stop at the site of the ancient port of Kechreai where St.Paul disembarked. 

One of the most important and powerful cities of ancient Greece, Corinth became the center of commercial traffic between Europe and Asia reaching its height circa the 5th century BC. 

The ancient city of Corinth sits below and towards the coast. 

It sprawls over a huge area including sections of walls (in Roman times having a 15km circuit), stadiums, gymnasiums and necropolises. 

The best preserved excavated central area includes the Classical Temple of Apollo and the Roman forum. The city was immensely wealthy-a key center of the Greek and Roman worlds controlling trade between the northern mainland of Greece and the Peloponnese. 

The two ports of Lechaion on the Gulf of Corinth and Kenchreai on the Saronic Gulf connected the Ionian and Aegean Seas. Corinth was a rival of Athens, and sided against it with Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. 

In 146 BC the Romans destroyed the city, which wasn't rebuilt until a century had passed. 

It was rebuilt on a grandiose scale by Julius Caesar in 44 BC, at first planned as a colony for veterans, but later became the provincial capital and became rich again as a trading power, with Rome to the west and Syria and Egypt to the east.

The opulence of the city seems to have led to decadence, with the temple of Aphrodite/Astarte (on the acropolis of Acrocorinth) serviced by over a thousand 'sacred' prostitutes, drawn from the famously beautiful Corinthian women.

In 51-52AD St. Paul spent eighteen months in Corinth and tried to bring about reform, but his efforts were met only with rioting. Some might say that the city was punished by God when two huge earthquakes struck it in 375 and 521, which leveled the Roman buildings and cleaned out the population once again.

It became a great naval power who perfected the trireme. 

The ruins of ancient Corinth are spread out at the foot of the huge rock of Acrocorinth. The museum contains mosaic floors, Mycenaean and Corinthian pottery, terra cotta sphinxes, statues of two supernatural beings, engraved stones, and other various kinds.

Today Corinth (korinthos) ranks among Greece’s most important cities. 

The Church of Saint Paul reminds as the of the saint’s Letters to the Corinthians and his preaching here. 

You will have your own free time for a drink, coffee swim.