Day trips · East Attica

Vravrona (Brauron)

The sanctuary of Artemis on Attica's east coast, about 24.5 km south-east of Athens near Markopoulo, set in an inlet that has silted up since antiquity. The 6th-century BC temple was rebuilt in the 420s BC, and a Π-shaped stoa holds nine dining rooms with couch cuttings still visible; a classical stone bridge on the site is the only known Greek example of its period. Young Athenian girls served here as arktoi, 'she-bears', in the quadrennial Arkteia rites, and the museum 330 m away displays their votives.

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