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Mykonos (/ ˈ m ɪ k ə n ɒ s,-n oʊ s /, [2] [3] UK also / ˈ m iː k-/; [4] Greek: Μύκονος) is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos.The island has an area of 85.5 square kilometres (33.0 sq mi) and rises to an elevation of 341 metres (1,119 feet) at its highest point.
Mount Olympus (/ oʊ ˈ l ɪ m p ə s, ə ˈ l ɪ m-/, [5] Greek: Όλυμπος, romanized: Ólympos, IPA: [ˈoli(m)bos]) is an extensive massif near the Thermaic Gulf of the Aegean Sea, located on the border between Thessaly and Macedonia, between the regional units of Larissa and Pieria, about 80 km (50 mi) southwest from Thessaloniki. [6]
Olympia (Modern Greek: Ολυμπία [oli(m)ˈbi.a]; Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπία [olympí.aː]), officially Archaia Olympia (Greek: Αρχαία Ολυμπία lit. ' Ancient Olympia '), is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name.
In 1938, Mount Olympus was established as the first national park in Greece, and declared a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1981. [1] The building houses the offices of the National Park Administration, the exhibition, a library, various meeting rooms and a spacious atrium for events or exhibitions. There are also rooms for a café and a ...
Troodos or Trodos [a] is the largest mountain range in Cyprus, located in roughly the center of the island.Its highest peak is Mount Olympus – also known in Greek as Χιονίστρα – at 1,952 metres (6,404 ft).
The 'house of Dionysus' named after a mosaic of Greek god Dionysus riding a panther. The Doric Temple of Isis was built on a high, overlooking hill at the beginning of the Roman period to venerate the familiar trinity of Isis, the Alexandrian Serapis, and Anubis. The Temple of Hera, circa 500 BC, is a rebuilding of an earlier Heraion on the site.
The Mykonos windmills are an iconic feature of the Greek island of the Mykonos. The island is one of the Cyclades islands, which neighbour Delos in the Aegean Sea . The windmills can be seen from every point of the village of Mykonos, the island's principal village, which is frequently called the Chora (which translates to "Country" in Greek ...
In front of the temple stands an altar, to the base of which a metal ring was attached, which served to tie the sacrificial animals. Both gods, Zeus Hypsistos and Zeus Olympios, were simultaneously venerated. While Zeus Olympios ruled the people from the top of Mount Olympus, Zeus Hypsistos dominated the sky, that is, all the supernatural.