Hiking - Routes

A wonderful walk in Palaiochora, Aegina Mystras, a hill interspersed with medieval churches with frescoes of saints, and directly opposite to the imposing church of Agios Nektarios.
Provided the people of Aegina protection from pirates.
Tradition says that the churches of Palaiochora are 365, as many as the days of the year. Historical studies, however, indicate that in fact there have been around 50. Today we can visit the 33 still lasting.

Some of the temples have over the entrance door bell and it is a wonder how they survived in occupied area.
Today, already some of the temples have been renovated and have restored sections of the paintings as St. George Catholic, Episkopi, the St. Dionysius cell, the church of the monastery of Agia Kyriaki and Life Giving Fountain, the Agos Stephen and the Holy Cross.

For someone going to the Temple of Poseidon, the path starts from the Settlement, passes from Virgin in Vrysoula, continues to Prophet Elias, arrives to St. Eustace and from there to the Palaces where is the Temple of Poseidon, which is Doric of 6th century BC.
There it is said committed suicide with poison the orator Demosthenes 322p.Ch.

The sanctuary was excavated by the Swedish archaeologists Samuel Wide and Lennart Kjellberg in 1894 and is the first Swedish excavation in Greece.
To date archaeological findings place the first use of space in early Hellenic era, perhaps even the Neolithic period. Still used in Mycenaean, Geometric and Archaic period.