The city of Corinth was rebuilt in the XIXth century after a violent earthquake which destroyed the old town.
In the antiquity Corinth was a rich city, its vestiges are in the archaeological site of the ancient Corinth.
The city partly owed its prosperity thank to a privileged position: crossroads between the Attic and the Peloponnese and between the Aegean Sea and the Ionian sea.
The Corinthians founded several colonies to facilitate their trade, for example Lefkas, Corfu and especially Syracuse in Sicily.
The opulence of Corinth was famous all over the ancient world, as its hundreds of courtesans who exerted the holy prostitution in the temple of Aphrodite.
At the top of an hill occupied at least since the ancient Greece by an Agora, the impressive medieval fortress of Acrocorinth increased during the centuries by the various conquerors who occupied the place : Romans, Byzantines, Franks,…
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