After a few days of being lazy and hanging around the house, Don working on his photos and me listening to audio books and playing Monopoly (trying to be patient), we went out this morning to investigate the Sanctuary of the Egyptian Gods.This site is very close to our house in Nea Makri, so we just walked over. The site is surrounded by fencing and it is now closed to the public. It was opened for the 2004 Olympics, but now is closed and in disrepair.
We walked around the fences, trying to get a look at the artifacts. The government has put up a storyboard and the EU spent some money on restoring the site, but I guess now that the Olympics are over the si
te will be left to nature again.
Right next door to the site is a Club Med. The facilities have a feel of the 1970s about them, and of course the Club Med was pretty empty.
We walked along the front of the facility and asked the guard if we could go into the grounds, but he didn't understand us, so we went on along the beach and the front of the Club Med. See google map. Then I suggested that we turn off the beach promenade and see if we could go around the Club Med facility to try to get a different view of the Egyptian Gods.
After several blocks of hike we realized that, as usual in Europe, it is not possible to go around the block. But, we again saw a big guard station to enter the Club Med. So we decided to try to crash, and walking confidently along the sidewalk we took advantage of the arrival of a delivery truck at the guard shack to enter the grounds and check out the Egyptian God Sanctuary again.
We were able to get a better view of the temple ruins and some of the hunky male guard statues that were discovered during the EU restoration. Then I spotted some stairs that went up to the top of the poolhouse and Don was able to get some good photos.
Some history of the site--the sanctuary was not built by Egyptians, but rather the Romans, who sometimes worshiped Egyptian dieties. They would come over from Athens to visit Nea Makri in the summer. Many of the upper class had summer homes in this region. They built the temple to Isis, guarded by 8 statues. There were hot, cold, and warm baths adjacent to the temple.
When we returned to the house Don looked up his favorite site EXPLORE & DISCOVER ATHENS, GREECE by Robert Horne
We walked around the fences, trying to get a look at the artifacts. The government has put up a storyboard and the EU spent some money on restoring the site, but I guess now that the Olympics are over the si
te will be left to nature again.Right next door to the site is a Club Med. The facilities have a feel of the 1970s about them, and of course the Club Med was pretty empty.
We walked along the front of the facility and asked the guard if we could go into the grounds, but he didn't understand us, so we went on along the beach and the front of the Club Med. See google map. Then I suggested that we turn off the beach promenade and see if we could go around the Club Med facility to try to get a different view of the Egyptian Gods.
After several blocks of hike we realized that, as usual in Europe, it is not possible to go around the block. But, we again saw a big guard station to enter the Club Med. So we decided to try to crash, and walking confidently along the sidewalk we took advantage of the arrival of a delivery truck at the guard shack to enter the grounds and check out the Egyptian God Sanctuary again.
We were able to get a better view of the temple ruins and some of the hunky male guard statues that were discovered during the EU restoration. Then I spotted some stairs that went up to the top of the poolhouse and Don was able to get some good photos.
Some history of the site--the sanctuary was not built by Egyptians, but rather the Romans, who sometimes worshiped Egyptian dieties. They would come over from Athens to visit Nea Makri in the summer. Many of the upper class had summer homes in this region. They built the temple to Isis, guarded by 8 statues. There were hot, cold, and warm baths adjacent to the temple.When we returned to the house Don looked up his favorite site EXPLORE & DISCOVER ATHENS, GREECE by Robert Horne
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