Lavrio Travel Guide

 janetanne Says:  The tunnels and shafts dug to reach the layers of minerals in the ancient mines, created massive amounts of debris near the mine entrances. It is possible, to this day, to find a large variety of minerals quite easily. Despite the highly developed metallurgical techniques in... 

 janetanne Says:  The Society of Studies of the Lavrion Region founded the Mineralogical Museum of Lavrion, which was inaugurated in September 1986, with the aim of highlighting one of the most important aspects of the region's natural wealth. The Museum is dedicated to the memory of A.... 

 TELLAS Says:  SYNCH FESTIVAL IS A 2-3 DAYS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC AND NEW MEDIA EVENT. SOME OF THE ARTISTS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR ARE Biosphere, Vegetable Orchestra, Animal Collective, Amon Tobin, Afrika Bambaataa ETC. LIVES, DJ SETS, WORKSHOPS, CINEMA...USUALY AT THE BEGINING OF... 

 Irine_29 Says:  there are 3 thinks I like in Lavrio:its palm treesits colorsand "the yard"Don't miss its drinking chocolate. I love the orange-cinamon flavor, and the almond one. 

 AndyRG Says:  The port of Lavrio becomes more important year by year. It has been enlarged during the last years, the aim is to be less jam at the big port of Piraeus. The geographical position of the port makes it ideal to be new shipping routes, basicly to the islands in Cyclades.... 

 AndyRG Says:  In front of the modern marine, Agia (Saint) Paraskevi stands silent and proud. It is a miniature church, similar to the thousand ones at the islands (like in Cyclades, of course in a bigger size). 

 Irine_29 Says:  the southest part of Attica prefecture, where the temple of Poseidon is set and where King Aigaias suicided...the day I was there, the temple was closed, so could not take any photo of it. Soon though, I will, soon... 

 Irine_29 Says:  the sunset colors captivated my mate, that he took some nice shots of me... 

 MITNIC Says:  Laurion In antiquity, even as now, Laurion was understood as Attica's SE corner, the place of the silver mines, a clearly identified system of low hills stretching N from Cape Sounion for a distance of ca. 17 km. For most of this length, Laurion has a single backbone marked... 

 MITNIC Says:  But to some Laurion did not mean only mining: there are also, in some less accessible places, instructive examples of farmhouses and marble quarries, in one of which one can see where column drums were removed. Finally, at the top of Vigla Rimbari there is a rubble enclosure... 

 MITNIC Says:  Despite this setback, the Classical period marks the heyday of the Laurion mines. Thereafter the story is one of decline, accompanied by a slave revolt (Ath. 6.272), and by Strabo's time men had ceased to go underground but were now reworking the slag-heaps (9.1.23). Even... 

 MITNIC Says:  Exploitation of this mineral wealth may have begun as early as the Middle Helladic period, but the evidence admits of no assessment of the extent, or continuity, of the industry in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages.By the archaic period, however, from the time of Peisistratos'... 

 Irine_29 Says:  hope, is the last to die, even in the hardest times, even in the roughest souls...;-) 

 Irine_29 Says:  top of the mine, you get the best view of the city. Try to make it for the sunset. The contradictions of the colors give some beautiful results! 

 Irine_29 Says:  The city, like most of the Greek harbours, offers nice tavernas and caffes. Also, it is very famous for the big number of its Palm trees!This photo, shows the "dark side" of Lavrio. 

 MITNIC Says:  Thorikos is situated on the E coast about 10 km N of Sounion, it was one of the 12 independent cities of this area said to have been unified by Theseus under Athenian hegemony (Strab. 9.1.20). In the later years of the Peloponnesian War it was fortified (Xen. Hell. 1.2.1) in...