{"id":40501,"date":"2021-01-28T13:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/?p=40501"},"modified":"2021-01-28T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T10:42:12","slug":"archaeological-site-of-kolona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/blog\/archaeological-site-of-kolona\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeological site of Kolona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The archaeological site of Kolona is situated on a verdant slope close to the main harbour. Discoveries in the area prove an uninterrupted human activity from the bronze age since the Byzantine era. One of the most important findings are the remains of an ancient temple, built to honour God Apollo (dated approx\u00a0520-500 BC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_293285888-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Achaeological Site of Kolones - Aegina Island\" data-id=\"30997\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_293285888.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/shutterstock_293285888-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-30997\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_293285888-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_293285888-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_293285888-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_293285888-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_293285888-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_293285888.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_102777140-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"The Archaeological site of Kolones\" data-id=\"31005\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_102777140.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/shutterstock_102777140-2\/\" class=\"wp-image-31005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_102777140-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_102777140-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_102777140-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_102777140-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_102777140-1200x798.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/shutterstock_102777140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grcycling112-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo temple, Kolones archaeological site Aegina\" data-id=\"30249\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grcycling112.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/grcycling112-3\/\" class=\"wp-image-30249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grcycling112-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grcycling112-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grcycling112-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grcycling112-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grcycling112-1200x801.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/grcycling112.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The archaeological site of Kolona is situated on a verdant slope close to the main harbour. Discoveries in the area prove an uninterrupted human activity from the bronze age since the Byzantine era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[117],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40502,"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40501\/revisions\/40502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/media\/30997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/articles.grcycling.com\/241nebu48rly\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}