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Extract from the Olympia (Olymba) Travel Guides:
The historic associations and resonance of
OLYMPIA
, which for over a millennium hosted the most important
Panhellenic games
, are rivalled only by Delphi or Mycenae. It is one of the largest and most beautiful sites in Greece, and the setting is as perfect as could be imagined: a luxuriant valley of wild olive and plane trees, spread beside the twin rivers of Alfis (Alpheus) -the largest in the Peloponnese - and Kldhios, and overlooked by the pine-covered hill of Krnos. Sadly, the actual ruins of the sanctuary are jumbled and confusing, and seem to cry out for reconstruction, even on a modest scale. The great temple c...
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