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Rainer
April 14, 2026
Hiking
The Diolkos was a technical pioneering achievement of ancient Greece and functioned as a kind of early "railway". The ruins of this ancient ship-hauling way are still visible here.
Ships were transported overland between the Saronic and Corinthian Gulfs.
Sailors could thus avoid the dangerous and time-consuming circumnavigation of the Peloponnese peninsula.
The 6 to 8.5 kilometer long road was paved with stone slabs, in which parallel grooves for special transport wagons (Olkos) were embedded.
It was built around 600 BC under the tyrant Periander and remained in operation for centuries (until approx. the mid-1st century AD).
Ships were transported overland between the Saronic and Corinthian Gulfs.
Sailors could thus avoid the dangerous and time-consuming circumnavigation of the Peloponnese peninsula.
The 6 to 8.5 kilometer long road was paved with stone slabs, in which parallel grooves for special transport wagons (Olkos) were embedded.
It was built around 600 BC under the tyrant Periander and remained in operation for centuries (until approx. the mid-1st century AD).
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Karlheinz
April 15, 2022
Hiking
The ships were pulled across the isthmus before the canal was dug
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