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Section of the Doric colonnade of the Palaestra, dated to the 3rd century BC. Ancient Olympia, Peloponnese, Greece. The Palaestra is a large square building, with a central court surrounded by a Doric colonnade with 19 columns on each side and numerous side rooms used for oiling of bodies, dressing, bathing and lecturing. The central court was where the athletes practised wrestling, boxing, the pankration and jumping. Olympia was the site of the ancient Olympic Games and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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- Copyright Steven Sklifas. All Rights Reserved.
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Olympia, Olympic, Zeus, Peloponnese. Greece, Greek, Ancient Greece, Europe, Southern Europe, Ruins, Archaeology, archeology, ruin, Arcadian, Landscape, architecture, peloponisos, peloponnes, Peloponnese, peloponnisos, Mythology, Hellenic, Hellenistic, Pagan, God, Goddess, sacred, vestiges, sanctuary, Ellenis, Ellenes, Hellens, Panhellenic, games, sport, athletics, arena, Archaia, Ellis, Illia, Mediterranean, UNESCO
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- Olympia - Peloponnese - Greece
