Two Day Tour to Marathon - Thermopylae -Delphi - Plataea
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Historical Battle Private Tour |
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Marathon - Thermopylae - Delphi - Plataeae - Salamis
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Greece Private tour, drives through the fertile plain of Mesogia. Visit the battlefields of Marathona and the tombs of the Athenian soldiers who died in the battle. |
 Leave Marathon for the drive to Thermopylae stopping to see the statue of Leonidas.
This is a Private Historical tour strictly to see the battlefields and the scenery, there are no ancient ruins to see. The morphology of the ground has changed due to erosion by rain and sea. You can still get a good idea of how the battle must have been and where it took place.
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To obtain more detailed information on the sites and what took place at Marathon and Thermopylae please use the hyperlinks below. Battle of Thermopylae Battle of Marathon Greece Private tour drives via Mt. Anopaea to Delphi. The road which Ephialtes, offered to guide Persians around Thermopylae. Overnight in Delphi
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2nd Day:
On the slopes of Mount Parnassus, in a landscape of unparalleled
beauty and majesty, lie the ruins of the Sanctuary of Apollo
Pythios. Visit the Treasury of the Athenians, the Temple
of Apollo and the Museum containing masterpieces of ancient
Greek sculpture such as the bronze Charioteer and the famous
athlete Aghias. Visit the Gymnasium and the Sanctuary of Athena
Pronaea.
Delphi
Oracle
Drive via Thebes to Plataeae. Plataeae was an ancient city, located in Greece in southeastern Boeotia, south of Thebes. It was the location of the Battle of Plataeae in 479 BC, in which an alliance of Greek city-states defeated the Persians and ended the Persian Wars.
The Battle of Plataea was the final
land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It
took place in 479 BC near the city of
Plataea
in Boeotia, and was fought between an alliance of the Greek
city-states, including
Sparta,
Athens,
Corinth,
Megara and others, and the Persians Empire of Xerxes I. Return
in Athens via Mount Kithairon, Elefsina.
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& photos on this website is updated continuously. I myself visit
all sites at least once the month.
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