Ancient sites · Plaka

Temple of Olympian Zeus

Photo: Chris Kar · CC BY-SA 4.0

A colossal Corinthian temple begun in the 6th century BC and completed under Hadrian in AD 131, after roughly 638 years of interrupted building. Of its original 104 columns, sixteen survive and fifteen are still standing; one fell in a storm in 1852 and lies where it landed.

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