Explora JOURNEYS Guide to
Katakolo (Olympia)
Beautiful, energizing, mesmerising and meditative.
Where bohemian days meet soirees of luxury wonder.
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The three-street town of Katakolo in the Peloponnese serves as the gateway to Ancient Olympia, a sanctuary of outstanding cultural significance and site of the first Olympic Games in 776BC. Time travel to classical antiquity as we tread among ruins of the stadium, temples to Hera and Zeus and the Doric columns of the palaestra wrestling grounds, deepening our understanding at the archaeological museum and Museum of the History of the Olympic Games. Ninety minutes into the remote Arcadian Mountains is the majestic and stirring Temple of Apollo Epikourios, or switch from ruins to restoration and head to one of the region’s nearby vineyards and olive oil estates or pick from a plethora of beautiful beaches, enjoying a sundowner at a taverna overlooking clearest blue Greek waters.
