Samos It is one of the many tourist islands in Greece and has been inhabited for thousands and thousands of years. Therefore, it has many archaeological ruins and thus we came across the Heraion of Samos.
The goddess most worshiped by the inhabitants of Samos was at one time Hera, and thus, seven kilometers from the city of Samos, is the Hera Temple, one of the most important ancient monuments in the country. The distance that separates the port city from the temple is not little, so in its time a road was built, the Sacred Route or Hiera Odos, decorated with many statues already lost in time.
El Hera Temple It was built near the mouth of the Imvrasos River, something that makes its foundations not too stable. Still, the temple became the main prayer site on the island, taking the place of an even older sacrificial altar. First a simpler temple with a wooden statue of Hera was born, but later, around the XNUMXth century, the huge Greek temple whose ruins we appreciate today was converted.
El Temple of Hera de Samos It measures m52 x 105.8 meters, although it was destroyed by an earthquake and had to be rebuilt. The new version was even bigger with 155 columns 20 meters high. At least that was the idea since political problems suspended the works. The Romans stole most of the statues in the XNUMXst and XNUMXnd centuries BC and it was Emperor Octavian Augustus who turned the inhabitants of Samos into Roman citizens by rebuilding the temple.
Of course, when the Roman Empire fell, Christianity arrived and took care of building a basilica in the area. The archaeological ruins of Samos They open from Tuesday to Sunday from 8:30 am to 3pm and the entrance costs two euros.
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