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mindcrime Says: The port of Lavrio is the third port in Attica after Piraeus and Rafina and the less famous among the travellers as only those who travel to Kea(Tzia) come here often (during summer also to other islands of Cyclades complex). The last years significant resources were...
mindcrime Says: We didn’t spend much time on Lavrio, the main road is lined with the stores and numerous café and restaurants, typical as in many greek sea towns. It’s weird to know this was a glorious rich city in Ancient Greece but now is in decadence trying to survive. It’s just a small...
Visit the Oldest Theatre in Greece
janetanne Says: Just outsisde of Lavrio, going toward the electrical power plant, you will see on the north slope of a hill beside the highway going to Athens, 'Lavriou,' an amphitheatre. This is the oldest theatre in Greece...over 3,000 years old. It is called Thoriko.
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...
Foros: 'Foros' For Cheap and Cheerful Food
janetanne Says: I was taken to this little restaurant on the outskirts of Lavrio and was pleasantly surprised at the good food, the cheap prices and the great service. The owner's son, Ioannis, came and chatted with us and told us many interesting stories about his little taverna and some...
Roloi Café Bar: Roloi Café Bar
mindcrime Says: This a typical in Greece café that offers coffee and soft drinks during the day and turns into a bar during the evening with music from dj etcWe stopped there on our way back from Sounio and it was very relaxing, we had a table near the sea so we could see the colorful...
mindcrime Says: Lavrio in southerneast part of Attica region, about 60km southeast of Athens and 12km NE from cape Sounio.On the pic you can see the map of Attica region where I highlighted LAVRIO, ATHENS, PIRAEUS, SOUNIO, RAFINA and the AIRPORT.By carWe usually drive there via Lavrio...
mindcrime Says: You don’t really need anything here, just walk around in this small town. Obviously a car will be very helpful to check the area around, you can visit some nice beaches or the famous cape Sounio (11km away from Lavrio).
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The ancient Theatre of Dionysus at Thoriko, 2 km from the town of Lavrion, which is one of the first and most important in ancient Greece.
Unique due to its shape which comprises an elongated layout with an oval orchestra, it was built in the late 6th century BC and it is the earliest found so far in Greece. The theatre was excavated by the American School of Classical Studies in 1886.
The position of the ancient deme of Thorikos was located on the hill Velatouri on the edge of the plain of modern Thorikos, near the sea. Among the oldest ancient demes of Attica, Thorikos was one of the 12 settlements (komai) that, according to tradition, took part in the political unification under Athens (synoikismos) by Theseus. Due to its proximity to the mines of Lavrion, Thorikos was the mining centre of Lavreotika region. The site was inhabited from the Neolithic age (ca. 4500 BC) and without interruption until the 1st century BC.
The excavations have brought to light part of the prehistoric settlement, as well as an extensive part of the historical deme, namely residential quarters, cemeteries, the theater, and the so-called "industrial quarter", along with ancient mines. It is noteworthy that mine extraction in Thorikos dates back to around 3000 BC
Written Nov 9, 2011
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...
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: 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.
Looking for its glorious past...
Lavrio is a nice port 55 km SE of Athens, about 12 km north of Cape Sounio, where is the ancient temple of Poseidon. It was a rich town in antiquity, but in modern times it fall into decay. It is...
Ancient History Lesson - Lavrion
After the battle of Marathon, Themistocles persuaded the Athenians to devote the anticipated revenue derived from a major silver vein strike in the mines circa 483 BC to expanding the Athenian fleet...
Lavrio is a small town with about 9000 inhabitants in southeastern part of Attica region, about 60km southeast of Athens and 12km NE from cape Sounio. It’s one of the three ports of Attica (the others...
A city of wealth in the past. A city of decadance in the present. One of ancient's Greece richest cities, due to its lead and silver mines, has now become to a big industrial museum. After the...
Build your own Lavrio page
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