Palaia Epidavros

Palea Epidavros (Greek Παλαιά Επίδαυρος ( f sg ) ) is a small harbor town in the municipality of Epidavros Greece and is about 13 km from the famous Asklepios Epidaurus sanatorium located on the coast of the Saronic Gulf in the landscape Argolis in the Peloponnese.

In ancient times, Palea Epidavros was associated to the sanatorium port city, about the many pilgrims traveled to asclepieion. Today, many tourists use the idyllic village, which seems to be almost encircled by lemon and orange groves, not infrequently than spend the night to visit from here Epidauros.

On the peninsula Nisi, which divides the bay of Palea Epidavros in two halves, significant remains of the ancient settlement can still be seen. So there are on top of the Acropolis hill remains an imposing wall that probably belonged to the Byzantine period to a castle, but indicate ancient origins to Walling of the Acropolis. At the southwest corner of the Acropolis archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a small theater with about 15 into the slope beaten rows of seats and the foundations of a stage area, where in the front seats, the backrests are still preserved. It is believed that this theater was attached to a sanctuary of Dionysus. Likewise, extensive ancient house construction on the site of the peninsula were revealed.

That was the place already inhabited in the Mycenaean period Mycenaean tombs prove that could be exposed in the center.

Remains of ancient buildings can be seen on the south end of the peninsula under water. A little further south you will find near the shore under water the remains of a Roman estate.