Travel Blog Photos from Sounion (37)
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... of Poseidon. This temple is from the 400s BC for Poseidon who is the god of the sea. It was built on the coast in Sounion, Greece. Lord Byron, an English poet of the 1800s, visited Greece and left his mark on this temple. On one of the columns he ...
Tonight we drove down to Cape Sounion, to watch the sunset at about 7:40. Sounion is on the southern most part of the mainland of Greece and took about 50 minutes to get there by bus. There was an old temple there on the edge of a cliff overlooking the ...
We went to Cape Sounion today. it is the southern most point of the mainland so it was used as a look-out point by the Greeks. It is also the location of the remainder of Poseidon's temple. He was the god of the Sea, and brother of Zeus. ...
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