You will hear it called the "Gorge of the Gods" because they were from here, it is said, that the king of the underworld, Pluto, came out and snatched Persephone, and it was from here that Hercules ascended Cerberus from Hades in his twelfth and final labor. Fairies are said by local lore to live

At the eastern end of the city, there is the Bisti peninsula (in Arvanitika Bist means Tale) While Ermioni of Mycenaean and Geometric times developed in the area of the hill of Magoula, the new city of the Ermioneans, from Archaic times (7th-6th century) probably developed first in Bisti next to the famous Porphyryeum. From

It was built in 1896 with money from our national benefactor Andreas Syngros. It housed the Primary School for many years. In the 1950's the first cinema of Ermioni operated in the building under the name "MON CINE". During the last two decades of the 20th century,sections of the Middle School of Ermioni and then

The Kapodistrian School in the years of the Ottoman rule was the home of Ali Bourdouniotis. During the years of Kapodistrias, namely in 1831, it was converted into a school building with donations from the residents of Ermioni. It housed for over 100 years the primary school of our town. In recent years it has

During the construction of the Greek Telecommunications Organization (OTE) building, behind the Ermioni Rural Dispensary, a large marble sarcophagus of the Roman period (3rd or 4th century AD) was found. The sarcophagus cover is a sculpture that must have been imported from Asia Minor, but it has not found a buyer, since the faces of

During the Roman period Ermioni flourished. The aqueduct (2nd century AD), which carried water to cisterns scattered in the rock and supplied water to the whole of the then numerous state, was perfected. Remains of this aqueduct can be found at the entrance to the city, at the foot of the hill of the Mills,

Franchthi Cave is located in southwest Argolis, on the north coast of the bay of Koilada. It was inhabited mainly during the Upper Palaeolithic (40-10,000 BC), Mesolithic (9-7,000 BC) and Neolithic periods (7-3,000 BC). The cave has a towering vaulted ceiling, reaching 40 metres high in the centre, while the great shaft is 100 metres

It is located next to the Kapodistrian University and in front of the Municipal Library of Ermioni. It is also built on the ancient wall of the 4th century BC. For many years it housed the Cultural Association "LASOS". In the previous decade it housed the 'French School' and today it is used as a

If someone told you that there are two "buried temples" dedicated to the God Apollo, in the mud ... below sea level, there is a good chance you would doubt it. But if he/she told you about the place where it is located, you would be amazed at how much you don't know about a

At the foot of Mount Didymos in Argolis there is a unique geological phenomenon. The earth has sunk in two places that resemble volcanic craters. Except that the huge holes in the earth were not created by a volcano or by meteorites hitting the ground, but by the subsidence of the ground due to the