Ancient Corinth Archaeological Zone

The main archaeological zone at Ancient Corinth covers the Roman-era city built over its earlier Greek predecessor. The site encompasses the agora (forum), the Temple of Apollo, the Glauke and Peirene fountains, the Lechaion Road, and numerous smaller structures — all within a compact area that can be covered on foot in a thorough morning.

Entry is combined with the on-site museum. The ticket office is at the site entrance in the modern village of Ancient Corinth; from there, paths lead through the ruins in a rough circuit. Most visitors spend two to three hours here. The site is open year-round and is shaded in parts, but the midday sun on the agora plateau can be brutal in summer — go early or late.

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When the Roman general Lucius Mummius destroyed Corinth in 146 BC, he killed all the men, sold all the women and children into slavery, and left the city empty. It remained abandoned for exactly one hundred years. Julius Caesar refounded it in 44 BC as a Roman colony — the same year he was assassinated. The city that grew up over the next two centuries was entirely Roman, built directly over the foundations of the Greek one, which is why the archaeology here is so layered and complex.