Rick Steves If you want to get away from it all when traveling in Greece, head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Studded with antiquities, this land of ancient Olympia, Corinth, and Sparta offers ...

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On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium.

Olympics-IOC Session Opens in Ancient Olympia as Presidential Election Looms ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (Reuters) - The International Olympic Committee kicked of its session in Olympia, site of the ...

It was created in the 7th century BC - It was found in the mud in 1914, then disappeared, ending up in the Metropolitan ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...

the city that in ancient times was the birthplace of the games that later inspired the modern Olympic Games. Recommended Videos Greece’s culture minister, Lina Mendoni, attended a ceremony ...