Akrokorinthos

This 545-meter mountain looms over the ancient city. You can drive up to about 350 meters elevation, and then the remaining 200 meters of ascent are up to you, on foot. Its summit is within multiple defensive walls. The earliest written histories we have go back to the 7th and 6th centuries BCE. The Macedonians, under Alexander the Great, improved the fortifications in the 4th century BCE. The…