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A chic stone mountain town clinging to Parnassus slopes, a winter-sports and après hub near Delphi.
32 km · about 35 min drive
Central Greece, Greece · Europe
Ágios Geórgios sits on the route: 10 minutes from Agía Triáda, 39km from Delphi.
Ágios Geórgios is a town located in Central Greece, Greece. With a population of 2,045, it is an important destination in Europe.
On a road trip, Ágios Geórgios sits in Greece, where you drive on the right. It's in the Europe/Athens time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Ágios Geórgios to your route.
Coroneia (Ancient Greek: Κορώνεια), or Coronea, was a town of ancient Boeotia, and a member of the Boeotian League. It is described by Strabo as situated upon a height near Mount Helicon; its territory was called Κορωνειακή. The town stood upon an insulated hill at the entrance of a valley leading southwards to Mt.Read more
Helicon, the principal summit of which is seen at the head of the valley. From this hill there was a fine view over the Lake Copais, and at its foot there was a broad plain extending as far as the marshes of the lake. On either side of the hill flowed two streams, one on the eastern or right hand side, called Coralius or Cuarius, and the other on the left, named Phalarus: a tributary of the latter was the Isomantus or Hoplias. Coroneia is said to have been founded by the Boeotians from Arne in Thessaly, after they had been driven out of their original homes by the Thessalians; and they appear to have called it Coroneia after the Thessalian town of this name. At the same time they built in the plain in front of the city a temple of Athena Itonica, also named after the one in Thessaly, and likewise gave to the river which flowed by the temple the name of Cuarius or Curalius, after the Thessalian river. In this temple was held the festival of the Pamboeotia, which was common to all the Boeotians. The Thessalian origin of Coroneia is also attested by Pausanias, who ascribes its foundation, as well as that of Haliartus, to Athamas and his descendants, who came from Thessaly.
Coroneia is mentioned by Homer in the Catalogue of Ships of the Iliad, in conjunction with Haliartus.
In historical times several important battles were fought in the plain in front of the town. It was here that in the Battle of Coronea (447 BC) the Athenians under Tolmides were defeated by the Boeotians in 447 BCE, in consequence of which defeat the Athenians lost the sovereignty which they had for some years exercised over Boeotia. The plain of Coroneia was also the scene of the Battle of Coronea (394 BC), which saw a victory gained by the Spartans and their allies under King Agesilaus II over the Thebans and their Argive allies in 394 BCE. In the Third Sacred War, Coroneia was twice taken by the Phocians under Onomarchus. Philip II of Macedon, after the conquest of the Phocians, gave up the town to the Thebans. Coroneia espoused the cause both of Philip V of Macedon and of Perseus of Macedon in their wars with the Romans.
Pausanias says that the most remarkable objects in Coroneia were altars of Hermes Epimelius and of the winds, and a little below them the temple of Hera. The principal remains of the ancient city are those of the theatre, of the temple of Hera, and of the agora. Coroneia minted its own coins, which are very rare, featuring the Boeotian shield on one side, and on the other a full-faced mask or Gorgonian head, with the epigraph graph KOPO.
Its site is located near modern Palaia Koroneia.
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Ágios Geórgios is located in Central Greece, Greece, Europe. The coordinates are 38.3934 latitude, 22.9319 longitude.
Ágios Geórgios has a population of approximately 2,045 people, making it a town in Greece.
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landmark
A chic stone mountain town clinging to Parnassus slopes, a winter-sports and après hub near Delphi.
32 km · about 35 min drive
ancient ruins
The ancient sanctuary on Mount Parnassus that was considered the center of the world in ancient Greek religion, home to the famous Oracle of Apollo.
39 km · about 45 min drive
coastal drive
A genteel sea-captains' town of neoclassical mansions on the Gulf of Corinth below Delphi.
48 km · about 55 min drive
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A narrow artificial waterway cut through solid rock connecting the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf, with vertical walls 90 meters high.
51 km · about 60 min drive
ancient ruins
The ruins of one of ancient Greece's wealthiest cities, dominated by the imposing columns of the 6th-century BC Temple of Apollo.
54 km · about 65 min drive
landmark
The battlefield where 300 Spartans made their stand, marked by the Leonidas monument by the highway.
56 km · about 65 min drive
castle
A monolithic rock fortress rising 575 meters above ancient Corinth, one of the most impressive medieval fortifications in Greece.
57 km · about 65 min drive
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