ON SEEING OLYMPIA, VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THEWORLD ARE ASTONISHED BY ITS IMPRESSIVE SERIES OFMONUMENTS RUINS OF BUILDINGS, SACRED GROVES,TEMPLES AND STATUES, AND NOT TO MENTION ITSARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. THE MUSEUM HOSTS MANYEXHIBITS OF FINDS FROM THE AREA SUCH AS STONEHEADS, MARBLE STATUES, TERRACOTTA POTS AND BRONZEFIGURINES.VERY CLOSE TO THE ANCIENT SITE LIES THE MODERNVILLAGE OF OLYMPIA WITH ITS UNIQUE OLYMPIC GAMESMUSEUM. A SERIES OF POSTAGE STAMPS AS WELL ASMOMENTOES LINKED TO THE HISTORY OF THE GAMES AREON DISPLAY.NOT FAR FROM OLYMPIA ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER PLACESALSO WELL WORTH A VISIT BEAUTIFULLY PRESERVEDLANDSCAPES, ANCIENT BUILDINGS SUCH AS THE TEMPLEOF APOLLO, EPIKOURIOS. TRADITIONAL SETTLEMENTSSUCH AS LAMBIA AND TRADITIONAL VILLAGES LIKEANDRITSENA. WELL KNOWN SPAS LIKE KAIAFAS WITH ITSLIFE GIVING NATURAL SPRINGS, PICTURESQUE VILLAGESBY THE SEA SUCH AS SKAFIDIA, AND TOWNS BUILT AMIDEMERALD GREEN FIELDS AND VALLEYS LIKE ZACHARO ANDAMALIADA.THE REGIONS CAPITAL, PYRGOS, SPORTS EXQUISITENEO CLASSICAL BUILDINGS, PAVED SQUARES, SMALLTAVERNAS, AND GRILLS SERVING LOCAL DELICACIES ANDSAVOURY SNACKS, ALL PREPARED WITH PRODUCE FROMTHE FERTILE SOIL OF ILIA.THIS PART OF GREECE SEEMS BLESSED BY THE GODS.HOSPITALITY HERE IS NOT JUST A WORD, IT IS AVIRTUE, A TRADITION, A WAY OF LIFEONLY 35 KM FROM THE ANCIENT SITE OF OLYMPIA AND 8KM FROM THE TOWN OF PYRGOS, NEAR THE VILLAGE OFSKAFIDIA, LIES ALDEMARS NEW JEWEL, THEOLYMPIAN VILLAGE HOTEL. VISIT OUR PAGES AND YOUWILL FEEL YOU ARE ALREADY THERE