General Information

The capital of Korinthia prefecture abstains 84 km from Athens, and has 30.000 residents. The city is ideal for visiting all through the year.

Corinthus is famous for its Isthmus, today it is a canal, with its many historical and mythological reports. It is the urban and administrative centre of the prefecture of Korinthia with great tourist infrastructure at the seashore of the Corinthian and Saronikos gulfs and in Loutraki.

In the city of Corinthus you should visit the metropolitan temple of Apostle Paul, the Ecclesiastical Museum and 7 km further the archaeological area of Ancient Corinthus.
The most important monuments are the mythical Krini of Glayke, the temple of Apollo, the road Lehaiou that connected the city with the harbour of Lehaion and the Krini Perini. Also, near is Julie Vasiliki where were contained statues of the family of Julious Caesar and the magnificent Southern Arcade that was one of the bigger buildings in ancient Greece. Finally Akrokorinthos is the bigger and older castle of Peloponnese.