Sea kayak Epidaurus

-3500 year old Ancient Sunken City
-View of Peloponnese Volcano
-Small Ancient Theater of Epidavros
-Picnic with local products **(extra cost)
-Pristine private beach for our stop

If you are water sport lover and interested about ancient ruins that is for you!

Sunken City of Epidaurus
Not far from Epidaurus, famous for its Ancient Theatre with the amazing acoustics there is an ancient sunken city. Sunken city is located just two meters below sea level in the bay of Agios Vlassios, on the beach “Kalymnios” of Ancient Epidaurus. Ancient ruins that are visible are the remains of a Roman villa (2nd century AD) close to the Agora that was located opposite the ancient port under the Acropolis of ancient Epidaurus. According to archeological research, this is a large rural Roman villa (Villa Rustica) where wealthy Romans with their servants lived .
Walls, foundations of buildings, amphorae of huge dimensions and paved sections are sunken just meters below sea level, and only few meters from the shore. The fact that an entire city is under water for so many centuries is truly fascinating. What makes the archeological site even more impressive is that visitors can literally swim in the … history. It is definitely a unique experience.

The Little Theatre of Epidaurus:
Little Theatre of Epidaurus is placed in an area called Nisi, near the port of Palea Epidaurus. It used to be the theatre of the ancient city-state and, apart from drama performances, it also hosted religious and political celebrations. This theatre was discovered in the early 1970s, under a field of olive trees and its restoration process continues till today.
Its construction started in the 4th century B.C. and was originally built to cover the needs of this small city-state, so its size was not big. It had 9 tiers and 18 rows of seats and could host about 2,000 spectators. Some seats have inscriptions which show that the theatre was dedicated to god Dionissos and was built in sections.
This theatre was totally reformed in the Roman times: the orchestra became semi-circular and the seats were reordered. However, it is believed that the small theatre of Epidaurus was in function for only seven centuries since its construction, because the historian Pausanias, who visited the area in the middle of the 2nd century BC, didn\’t mention anything about it. Today, an old, two-storey house is preserved in front of the theatre\’s orchestra.
After several excavations and much restoration work performed over the last decades, the Epidaurus Little Theatre hosts today the annual Greek Festival, celebrated in summer with music, dance and theatre performances. There are seats for 800 spectators and work is done to restore more of them. The performances are mostly held in modern or ancient Greek.