Apollo's Temple

    In the space where the antiquities are, dominates the Doric order temple of Apollo. It’s one of the ancient Greek temples and was built in 552 BC. Seven to thirty-eight pillars, support part of the peristyle, while other Apollo's Templefour have already fallen. That pillars are of stone with a height of 7.5 meters, less than 2 meters in diameter and they preserve the marble-plaster, the wall-plaster and an old decoration with pieces of glass which add more brilliance in the sun which shows that the temple was rebuilt by the Romans. The bases are founded on the rock and set off the plan and the dimensions of the temple, together with the lives and the cuttings. It is consisted of a row of pillars, six in the width and fifteen in the length. In the peristyle and in the two edges, the eastern and the western there was one pro-stoa in each which was named ANTE. The inner temple was divided in two rooms. In the West room there were pieces of bases where Apollo's Templea cluster of statues was placed. The inside lines along the carved rocks was a base with two rows of pillars which supported the roof.

The yard of the Temple

    North to the Apollo’s temple there were found remnants of an ancient temple of the 7th century BC. The yard of the temple as well as the temple weren’t that higher than the city but in the middle of the 6th century BC as well as in the Roman period, they cut the rising centre of the rock and set off the commercial centre of the market and set apart from the temple’s area.

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