Meeting Benches World art in all forms
In 2000 BC they arrived on Mount Kynthos the first inhabitants of this island. Since then, many events filled with memories the island of Delos, famous in the 700 a. C. for its sanctuary of Apollo. The Romans they arrived here in 250 BC, and to protect the site from the pirates, it was fortified (after the sacking of the 69 BC), but those fortifications did not prevent a second looting, that of Mithridates. When your feet will be on this earth, your whole body will feel a special feeling, connected to archaeological significance of the sites, but also to the legends that tell the predilection of the goddess Latona to this place, where she generated Artemis and Apollo. http://www.visitgreece.gr/en/contact
About 700 BC, Delos was one of the main religious centers of Greece, but of that which has existed your eyes can see many things, in an archaeological museum outdoors, where mosaics and marble ruins are every year covered by the flowers of spring. Obviously, you can enter the Archaeological Museum, to see the objects found on the island. The valley you see, long ago was the Sacred Lake, in honor of Apollo. When you’re close to the sanctuary of Dionysius, certainly you will see first of all what they see all the tourists: the enormous phallic monuments (which date back to 300 BC). http://www.visitgreece.gr/en/greek_islands/cyclades
What draws more the wonder of visitors? The Terrace of the Lions. Those you see are copies, but the originals – carved in marble of Naxos at the end of the seventh century – were nine, and their task was to protect the Sacred Lake. The neighborhood of the theater (from the Hellenistic and Roman times, a theater that could seat up to 5,500 spectators), was inhabited by the most influential people of the island, and many of their homes – as you will see – have elegant arcaded courtyards. Do not forget the house of Dionysus, where you can see a beautiful mosaic (29 pieces of the mosaic, representing Dionysus riding a leopard, were used to create the animal’s eye). http://www.visitgreece.gr/en/greek_islands/cyclades/delos
