Corinth Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I guess neither prose descriptions nor photos can ever really give you the feel of a piece of land. We didn't walk the land on which the battle of Chaironeia took place - trying to pack so much into this trip we are always short on time, so we cheated by driving it, as best we could. This meant going over a lot of bumpy dirt roads around the far...

This morning, Aisha, Jessica, Jeanna, and I (Melissa) took a trip to Corinth, about an hour bus ride Southwest out of Athens. Our first stop was the Corinth Canal which connects the Aegean Sea with the Ionian Sea. The actual town of Corinth is where St Paul lived and preached around 51 AD. The remains of the city include the Agora (market place)...

Getting to the airport was a breeze. We walked to the nearest Metro stop with an elevator, only about a block from the Athens Imperial. As we waited for the train we practiced the language even laughing at ourselves. We took the train out to the airport and made our way to the rental car counter. The woman at the counter was very helpful and ga...

10/16/2005 Corinth Corinth was a thriving city in the 5-6th century BC that traded all around the Mediterranean Sea. In 146 BC it was destroyed by the Romans as an example to all of the other Greek city-states opposing Rome. Later Julius Caesar re-founded Corinth in 44 BC for his veteran legions. At the time of Paul this was a large city at a st...

Sunday morning we left at 7:30 to drive to Corinth. Along the way we passed over the Corinth Canal which connects the mainland of Greece to the Peloponnese. About 2 hours later we arrived in Corinth and got to walk in the same places Paul walked. We got to see the sites that are so strongly associated with his ministry here such as, the Agora, t...