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Olympia Slideshow
Top Hotels in Olympia
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Aldemar Olympian Village
108 reviews -
Apollon Olympia
17 reviews -
Amalia Hotel Olympia
54 reviews -
Best Western Hotel Europa Olympia
163 reviews -
Neda Olympia
23 reviews -
Olympic Village Hotel Olympia
22 reviews
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Andonios Olympia
2 reviews
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Hotel New Olympia
8 reviews
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Hotel Olympion Asty Olympia
44 reviews
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Ilis Olympia
22 reviews
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Hotel Inomaos Olympia
7 reviews
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Pelops Olympia
120 reviews
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Athina Hotel Olympia
11 reviews
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Hotel Hercules Olympia
14 reviews
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Olympia Palace
19 reviews
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Aldemar Royal Olympian
27 reviews
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Rodon Olympia
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Antonios Olympia
42 reviews
Olympia
Travel Blogs from Olympia, Greece
place of the first Olympics
This is a top pick! ... moze nas podwiezc do Pyrgos. Zawiozla nas nawet 10km dalej! Byla przemila i bardzo rozmowna. Raczej nietypowa Greczynka. ENGLISH: To Olympia we were taken by a camp - trailer with Austians living in Czech Republic inside. Marcin was moaning that we ...
The Road to Olympia
This is a top pick! ... Once we got to the site, the burned trees were on the hill right above us. And Indy said the Olympia museum was spared by nothing but a miracle. The road between Vassai and Olympia was lined with arboral memorials to all of Creation lost to the ...
Jane the Olympic Champion
This is a top pick! ... the temple where his Zeus statue would sit. In the following centuries, his workshop was turned into a Byzantine church. We left the Olympia site as the sun was setting, and dined together at a local taverna. That night, Sunshine and Indy went out ...
Stories in Stone at Olympia
This is a top pick! ... left to do on our excursion to the Peloponnese before departing back to Athens was to roam through the Antiquities Museum at Olympia and the the Museum of the Olympic Games. At the Antiquities Museum, Indy showed us the sculptures that appeared on the ...
Ancient Stadiums And Steep Tolls.
This is a top pick! ... we are able to really enjoy the site of where the ancient Olympics were begun and staged every four years. Olympia is a gorgeous archaeological site. Set amongst trees and rolling hills it has an evocative feel - well that is until ...
Olympia
This is a top pick! ... itself was awesome with the sun beating down all day. The site of the ruins was spectacular and on a fairly large scale. Olympia was a sacred place of temples, priest dwellings, and public buildings as well as being the venue for the Olympic Games first ...
Welcome to Olympia!
... ; an Archaeological site. All these things are just so old, most from anywhere between 600 & 300 B.C. We drove through to Olympia which is where we spent the night. 13/01 - First stop today was another Archaeological site which has the remains of ...
Olympia
... of Samothrace which is held in the Louvre in Paris. Although it is not well known, there was also an oracle at Olympia. This oracle gave prophesies mainly about war and battles, so there were often offerings of armor. It was some pretty cool ...
Olympia
We arrived in Olympia mid morning and decided to search for a hotel first. We asked around 4 or 5 and settled on Hotel Pelops, which had been the original choice from Lonely Planet anyway. Although the rooms are quite small the hotel was comfortable, ...
Light the torch
... trying to get out of everyone. We arrived at the site and spent about two hours visiting mainly the archaeological ruins of Olympia. Among the ruins was the first Olympic track, Roman baths, a gymnasium, wrestling facilities, and Temples honoring Hera and ...
Olympia
... it's even considered bad luck to stare at someone for an extended period of time. Not much further and we are at our hotel in Olympia. Due to the opressive heat, the Olympic site tour has been pushed back to 5pm. It was quite interesting but in the heat, ...
Greece is the Word
... taken in I was a drowned rat! :) Next day I stuck to the main roads and persevered the trucks until I made it to Olympia. Birth place of the Olympics in 776BC. Initially to the glorification of Zeus, but that ended later on. I'd forgotten that one ...
Olympia!
... Hera’s temple was the place where the Olympic torch was (is) lit. Still today the torch is lit in Olympia and transported to wherever the games are being held. Supposedly we just missed the lighting of the torch for Vancouver’s ...
The Pit of Dispair
... anymore. It had only been 2 hours cycling in the rain, but the rain wasn’t letting up. Here we were in Olympia and I couldn’t see it! I didn’t know what to do. We can’t continue like this. ...
Olympia and Mycenae
... (except they started as only summer games and winter games were added in the mid-20th century). People from all over Greece would venture to Olympia for the games, and at that time all wars were to stop and all Greeks were to unite under their common ...
Tour 5271 / 0820
... these people did at this time in the years of 776BC - 39AD and old Zeus was well looked after. We also went through the Olympia Museum and then walked back to the Hotel for dinner and a beer. It was lovely. After dinner Jackie went out shopping with ...
From Athens to Olympia
... was the Palace of Agamemnon at Mycenae. We walked through the Gate of the Lions and saw the sinister beehive tomb before arriving in Olympia where the games were first held in 776 BC. We got to Olympia late at night. Had dinner went for a walk through ...
Greece
... ; Katie came along looking like the goddess, Nike Athena. Good fun! I had a wonderful run this morning through Olympia and along roads lined with olive tree groves. It was the birds and me at sunrise! I thought I could hear ...
blankety blank, another day in greece
Ancient Olympia (I'm back, I'm pretending I'm there cos I was too busy eating and sleeping en route). Beautiful red bud/Judas trees, fine pure air, the fallen temple of Zeus which they're trying to reconstruct for the Games in August (HA!). I spooshed ...
Olympia at Night
... Sparta. The ruins there were pretty disappointing, so we continued on our journey, via a stopover in Tripoli. When we finally arrived in Olympia, it was close to 11pm and it was pouring rain. We had no idea where to go, but thankfully a Japanese girl ...
Final sea day - Cruise 3
This was the final sea day as we prepare to reenter the Venetian canals tomorrow morning. This itinerary held many half or whole sea days, so those guests looking for more ship relaxation time and less long port days all in a row would enjoy this ...
Ancient Olympia and Cape Sounion
not quite fulfilling the Olympic dream, but got close to feel ...
let the games begin
... the DeMartino's, I decided to explore a little Greek history. I took a bus, a ferry, a taxi and a train to get to Olympia and the site of the ancient Olympic games. The museum has some of the best examples of classical sculpture I've ever seen. But ...
Olympia, Mikines, Mystras, Sparta - Its non stop!
... ___________________________________________________________ 30 Oct, Sunday Start point: Krestena End point: Agrapidochori, near Simopoulo Via: Olympia Odom(Km): 74.96 Moving(hrs.mim): 4.41 Ave(Km/h): 16.0 ...
Long trip to Greece
We arrived in Patras, Greece and made our way to Olympia, Greece were the Olympic games were furst started. No accomadation, but guide book lead use to a cheap youth hostel after the usual being lost and confuse. The direction and street signs ...
olympic sport of hitching
... a train station, and a train came, and took me where I wanted to go, it was splendid. And even though I arrived in Olympia a couple hours after sunset and was starving, believe it or not, I managed to procure some sustenance and avert a dinnerless night. ...
Ancient Olympia
From Areopoli and the Mani Peninsula we headed by car to Olympia and Andritsena, Greece Olympia was the location of the ancient Olympic games which were held very 4 years from 776BC to 393AD- that’s over 1,000 years. Consider that when realizing ...
Olympia
... we reached greener areas along the coast, but even there we saw evidence of scattered fires. The most upsetting was around Zacharo and at Olympia itself. As we saw when we arrived and walked the site, the fires had burned to the edge of town, to the edge ...