DELPHI

After making a quick street stop to take some touristy pictures we arrived in the one street long village of Delphi. From the balcony of our hotel I could see much of the city and the country side below. Our dinner that night was at at a little restaurant adjacent to the hotel and I got to taste many of the traditional Greek Foods. I felt at the time that I would never be able to have Feta cheese again A) because I'd been eating so much of it and B) because it tastes so wonderful in Greece.

In the morning we awoke to the beautiful city of Delphi. The breakfast at our hotel had some of the best yogurt i'd ever had (and the yogurt I had heard Greece was famous for).
When we went to meet our tour guide we were reminded again of what was said in our itinerary: The Temple of Apollo: The visible ruins belong to the last temple, dated to the 4th century BCE, which was peripteral (an Architectural adjective: (of a building) having a single row of pillars on all sides in the style of the temples of ancient Greece. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from Greek peripteron (from peri- ‘around’ + pteron ‘wing’ ) + -al)in Doric order. It was erected on the remains of an earlier temple, dated to the 6th century BCE. Inside was the adyton, (The adyton (Greek: Άδυτον) or adytum (Latin) was a restricted area within the cella of a Greek or Roman temple. Its name meant "inaccessible" or "do not enter". The adyton was frequently a small area at the farthest end of the cella from the entrance: at Delphi it measured just nine by twelve feet. The adyton would often house the cult image of the god. ) the centre of the Delphic oracle and seat of Pythia (the priestess of Apollo at Delphi in ancient Greece). The monument was partly restored during 1938-1941.

By far one of my favorite days while in Greece I loved the city of Delphi and all of the ancient ruins. Plus we had a wonderful tour guide who not only gave us the basic information about Delphi but told us her own personal family history there. I think what I loved so much about Delphi was that it was everything I thought of when I thought of Greece. Set on a mountain side the people where friendly and the ancient ruins where beautiful and looked as though they belonged in there surroundings.