The Location


The most realistic miniature of ancient Greece. A trek to the antiquities of the province of Olympia, is a path to Ancient Greece. Places of worship, ancient cities, architectural schools and periods to meet an unexpected puzzle which is breathtaking. 

 

All periods of history, and even those older phases of human history, are represented in this part of the Peloponnese. The area was inhabited since the Stone Age (6000-2700 BC) as evidenced by several findings.  

 

In prehistoric- heroic years, we are delivered from the Homeric epics, belonged to the State of Nileidon. This was spread to the Western coast of the Peloponnese to the mouth of the river Alpheus. King was the wise and prudent Nestor, who took part in the Trojan War with ninety ships, as Homer sings.