OLYMPIA, AT THE ORIGIN OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES - ONE PLACE, ONE STORY #10
Olympia, at the foot of Mount Cronion, is the cradle of the ancient Olympic games. Located in a fertile plain, it became for more than a thousand years a sacred place and very frequent every four years, where athletes from all over ancient Greece come to compete in high-stakes events: running, arms racing. , pankration, pugilism, long jump, javelin throwing, discus throwing, horse riding... For all these competitions, the site is enriched with important buildings whose centerpiece is the temple of Zeus with within it the gigantic statue of the god in gold and ivory.