1936 On the Continent

residence (altitude 1,640 feet). Park, wooded ravines, promenades. Agricultural school. Tombs of the kings.
    M OUNT P ARNES . Very interesting drive by motor-car (19 miles) to the Pavilion of the National Tourist Office of Greece (altitude 3,281 feet). Beautiful scenery, fir forests.
    M ARATHON L AKE . Dam and artificial lake supplying Athens and Piraeus with water. Very interesting. Beautiful drive by car (19 miles). Pavilion of the National Tourist Office of Greece.
    M ARATHON M OUND . Tomb of the Athenians killed in the famous battle against the Persians in 490 B.C. Charming drive by car (23½ miles) in different direction from that of the lake.
    S UNIUM (62 kilometres by motor-car. Buses leave Plateia Vathis). At Cape Sunium, a rocky promontory dominating the sea, are the ruins of the Temple of Poseidon, of which eleven columns remain standing. They are constructed from a coarse-grained marble, which shows the ravages of time but is remarkable for its glittering whiteness.
    The view from the Temple is one of extraordinary beauty, and the traveller fortunate enough to witness the sunset from this marvellous spot will carry away an ineffaceable memory.
    A rest-house of the National Tourist Office of Greece provides for the needs of visitors.
    N EA P ERAMOS or Megalo Pefko. By bus (22 miles) by way of Eleusis, or by railway from Peloponnesus station.
    A refugee village situated by the sea on the south-west coast of the gulf of Eleusis, opposite the island of Salamis. Much frequented during season; numerous café-restaurants along the pine-clad coast.
    At Megalo Pefko is the auxiliary maritime airport, base of the Air France Company, for its air lines between Marseilles and Indo-China.
    M ONASTERY OF P HANEROMENI . Crossing from Nea Peramos to Salamis (1 mile) by sail or motor-boat.
    Opposite Megalo Pefko, in a wooded site of the coast of the island of Salamis, is this monastery, which is said to have been built on the site of an ancient sanctuary. The church of the monastery is quite interesting, decorated with frescoes, some of which are noteworthy.
    P HYLE . By bus or motor-car to the village of Khassia (10 miles); thence on foot or muleback to the fortress in 2¼ hours.
    The fortress was constructed by the Athenians during the fourth century B.C. on a plateau 2,240 feet high, on a south-west spur of Mount Parnes. It commanded the shortest route from Thebes to Athens over the mountains. The strongly built walls are well preserved on the eastern and south-eastern sides over a stretch of 490 feet.
    Returning, one may visit the small monastery of Panaghia ton Cleiston, picturesquely situated in an abrupt gorge at the foot of Mount Harma.
    A MPHIAREION . By car via Kephissia, Boyati and Capandriti, to the village Calamos (28 miles); thence descent on foot or muleback in forty minutes.
    A sanctuary to the infernal hero Amphiaraos, situated on the left slope of a wooded ravine, and near a spring reputed for its curative virtues. The sanctuary possessed an oracle. Those who came to consult it sacrificed a ram and lay down on its skin awaiting divine revelation through a dream in their sleep.
    The excavations unearthed the ruins of a Doric temple with a big altar, a long portico where the consultants slept, and a small theatre.
    R HAMNUS . By car over the route to Marathon up to a point 2 kilometres before the village of Marathon; thence to the right over a carriage road. Ride of about 31 miles to the north of Athens.
    The ruins of the Acropolis of this renowned deme of Attica are situated in a very pretty and solitary site, on a hill by the seaside opposite Euboea. The walls surroundingthe Acropolis are well preserved, especially on the eastern slope.
    On a terrace at a distance of 1,300 feet to the south are the ruins of the sanctuary of Nemesis, which comprised two adjacent temples, of Doric order, whose construction dates back to the fifth and sixth centuries B.C. The smaller temple was probably dedicated to Themis and the larger one to Nemesis.
    T HEBES . By bus (43½ miles), or by rail from Larissa station.
    The town (in Greek Thivae, 8,000 inhabitants) is built on the site of the ancient Acropolis of Thebes, the famous Cadmea. The Greek tragic poets have borrowed from its legends many plots for their dramas.
    Thebes took part in many bloody wars, very often in rivalry with Athens. Thanks to its illustrious generals, Pelopidas and Epaminondas, it maintained for a brief period a hegemony over Greece. Captured by the