Epidaurus

The Epidaurus Festival is a great celebration that has lasted 60 summers and has hosted some of the biggest names in theater, music and dance such as Maria Kallas, Saint-Seans, Rostropovich, Pavarotti, Peter Hall, The Theater No, the Beijing Opera and many other distinguished artists. The last decade a dynamic number of spectators have embraced the festival and every summer is growing.

In a canyon, in 340 BC, an Argos architect Polycleitus the Younger, built, according to Pausanias, the theater of Epidaurus the finest and most renowned of its kind, combining perfect acoustics with elegance, symmetrical proportions and capacity of 13,000 spectators. The Ancient Theater of Epidaurus is situated within the archaeological site of the Sanctuary of Asclepius, in the Argolis prefecture of the Peloponnese.

If you seek for a strong combination of Greek Archaeology and seaside beauty, then this bike tour will definitely satisfy all your expectations. You will enjoy the endless beaches with the hazel waters located along the Argolic Gulf with some of the most important archaeological sites in Peloponnese such as Epidaurus with the famous theatre, Mycenae the kingdom of king Leonidas, ancient Tegea, Argos, ancient Lerna with the homonymous lake where Hercules killed the mythic beast, and the walls of ancient Tiryns.

You will meet in an alternative aspect one of the world’s greatest and most influential civilizations and revive in an active way the Greek cultural moments that are described in ancient legends and histories through the breathtaking archaeological wonders such as the Acropolis of Athens and Delphi but mainly in Peloponnese.

Get ready to take a step back in one of the world’s greatest and most influential civilizations and revive the Greek cultural moments that are described in ancient legends and histories through the breathtaking archaeological wonders such as the Acropolis of Athens and Delphi but mainly in Peloponnese.