The Poros Folkloric Museum was lovingly created by the members of the Poros Women’s Cultural Association ‘Poriotissa’ founded in 2003 and is included in the association’s founding charter.
05/10/2018
The Poros Folkloric Museum was lovingly created by the members of the Poros Women’s Cultural Association ‘Poriotissa’ founded in 2003 and is included in the association’s founding charter.
05/10/2018
The Temple of Poseidon has been dated to around 520 B.C. The peripteral structure was built in the Doric style, with six columns on its narrow sides and twelve on its long sides. It was one of three large sanctuaries dedicated to the sea-god Poseidon in the Saronic area and formed a triangle with the Temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina and the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio.
05/10/2018
The permanent exhibition “Shells and the Sea” is housed in the ground-floor gallery of the Hatzopouleios Municipal Library.
05/10/2018
The Poros Archaeological Museum is located on Koryzi Square. It was founded by Christos Fourniadis, an archaeology buff who made it his mission to rescue and preserve Trizinias’s antiquities.
13/09/2018
Nearby, an imposing defence tower, known as the ‘Palace of Theseus’, offers a view of Vidi beach where Greek ships once harboured on the eve of the naval battle of Salamis.
03/11/2017
The Temple of Poseidon is located near the Church of the Prophet Elias, at the north-western side of Poros.
03/11/2017
Near the Temple of Hippolytus lies the mythical sanctuary of the Muses, or Ardalidae.
02/11/2017
According to Pausanias, the ancient traveller, the volcano last erupted in the 3rd century BC.
02/11/2017
The Lemon Tree Forest has been praised for its unique, visceral beauty by a number of artists, such as novelist Kosmas Politis.