In this full day tour we will drive you through Prehistory, the Classical Period, the Roman Domination period, the Byzantine Empire period, the Crusades period and the nowadays modern Greece. You will have the chance to visit the place that all begun!!! After driving on the west coastal road to Corinth Canal, then we continue to Central Peloponnese through Tripolis and Megalopolis, finally we will arrive at Ancient Olympia, the Cradle of the Olympic Games. We will have time to visit the Archaeological Site with the Sanctuary of Olympian Zeus, the Ancient Stadium, and the Archaeological Museum.

Olympia in Peloponnese Greece, was the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games. The Games where held every four years by the Greeks and the whole known world participated bringing truce (Ekecheiria) until the games ended. Olympia is situated in a valley in Elia, in western Peloponnese (Peloponnesos), were the Alpheos River runs. In 776 BC, Iphitos, king of Elis, Kleosthenes of Pisa and Lykourgos of Sparta reorganized the Olympic Games in honor of Zeus and instituted the sacred ekecheiria, or truce. Soon it’s fame rests upon the Olympic Games, the greatest national festival and a highly prestigious one world-wide. The Olympiads included not only athletic contests,but also reciting of verse, reading debates on philosophical and other topics, and from 67 A.D.poetic,musical and dramatic competitions.