Visit To Ancient Corinth - The First Greek City

There is so much happiness in the air that I believe anything is possible, even to escape from the vicious circle in which it is most convenient to hide, but, of course, not from yourself. It's strange when everything turns upside down, when you learn not to feel sorry for yourself, but to accept everything as the untold story of life. When difficulties grow you. When you don't build walls. When you hug your soulmate who inspires you to fly without feeling the ground under your feet...

I love that in the spring there, inside, is so much desire to be, and outside, there is a mess of hair that I can't deal with unless it's raining. There is so much happiness that I want to spin in circles and then hug everyone whose arms I run into.

And on such days, it is impossible to stay inside your home. Something is forcing you outside - there is where life is going. So, we grabbed some snacks and drove to see what the Ancient Corinth looked like.

Historians consider Corinth to be the first settlement to appear on the territory of a European state. Now Ancient Corinth is a natural museum located in the open air in a picturesque place surrounded by mountains.

In the territory there is an archaeological museum, which contains mainly statues of ancient rulers, as well as ceramic dishes, tools, household items and even human remains. There are a lot of different exhibits collected here. Since we were there without a tour, there was no one else in the museum except our company - we just enjoyed walking through its halls. You can go up to each showcase and look at everything.

We started our tour from the museum’s courtyard, where the following sculptures are collected. Here are the remains of an ancient resident of the city.

We went into the museum building. At the entrance we are greeted by display cases with busts.

There is a mosaic panel on the walls. The museum amazed us with the most beautiful marble sculptures: it seems, and you can hear the rustling of the fabric when walking or the wind is about to blow it - the naturalism of the clothes of the marble statues amazes and delights.

We were the only ones walking around! There are big collection of ceramic dishes in the display cases, and we saw huge jugs standing on the cabinets. The museum itself is not very big.

Going outside, we found ourselves next to the main temple of Ancient Corinth - the Temple of Apollo. It is considered to be a visiting card of Ancient Corinth. Whether the temple was dedicated specifically to Apollo or to some other deity is not known for certain. But it was from the rostrum of this temple that the Apostle Paul defended the Corinthians who had converted to Christianity before the Roman rulers.

There are a lot of excavations of house foundations. At the moment, we are seeing excavations of buildings from the time of the Apostle Paul and more recent times. We went for a walk among them.

In ancient times, Corinth was one of the strongest cities in Greece. At different times, it was conquered by different nationalities - the Romans, Macedonians, Normans, Byzantines and others. Under the leadership of Julius Caesar, it became the capital of the Roman province. The city experienced very large earthquakes.

Ancient Corinth was a commercial and industrial center in ancient times. And it was the center of business activity in the eastern Mediterranean.

Walking around the space, we saw another part of a small temple.

Entire houses with arched ceilings.

At the top of a rocky mountain, which is clearly visible from the excavation area, the Acrocorinth fortress is visible. This is the considered to be the largest and oldest fortress in the Peloponnese.

The Corinth fortress was built on the mountain around 600 BC. It looks very big and well-preserved. Therefore, wear comfortable shoes and be very careful, because the stone slabs were polished over time and are slippery. It is being restored little by little. There is a sign at the entrance that it is open until 16-30.

On the territory of the fortress there is a functioning Orthodox church and a mosque building has been preserved. We climbed to the highest point. The views are simply extraordinary!

Acrocorinth itself is older, and is larger in area than the Acropolis in Athens. And strategically, it was much more important in ancient times than Athens. The Apostle Paul also came here with a letter to the Corinthians.

Since I am a fan of history, such trips make Greece more and more familiar and close to me.

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