Sounion, Greece

Travel Blogs from Sounion (7)

Sounion, Sounion, Greece travel blog
Sounion
Sep 10, 2005

... 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 ...

A travel blog entry by mooreblond04
Sunset at Cape Sounion, Sounion, Greece travel blog
Sunset at Cape Sounion
Sep 10, 2005

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 ...

A travel blog entry by katielee
Sounion, Sounion, Greece travel blog
Sounion
May 25, 2007

Photos of Poseidon's temple at Cape Sounion at the tip of Attica.  The temple was built under the Periklean building programme.

A travel blog entry by sojourner
Cape Sounion, Cape Sounion, Greece travel blog
Cape Sounion
Jan 20, 2007

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.  ...

A travel blog entry by vagabond07

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