This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Multi-day Tour Attractions In West Greece

x
Filter Attractions:

Multi-day Tour Attractions In West Greece

  • 1. Olympic Traveller Olympia
    The ancient Olympic Games were originally a festival, or celebration of and for Zeus; later, events such as a footrace, a javelin contest, and wrestling matches were added. The Olympic Games were a series of athletic competitions among representatives of city-states and one of the Panhellenic Games of ancient Greece. They were held in honor of Zeus, and the Greeks gave them a mythological origin. The first Olympics is traditionally dated to 776 BC. They continued to be celebrated when Greece came under Roman rule, until the emperor Theodosius I suppressed them in AD 393 as part of the campaign to impose Christianity as the State religion of Rome. The games were held every four years, or olympiad, which became a unit of time in historical chronologies. During the celebration of the games, a...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

West Greece Videos

Menu