Poros covers a distance of 31,3 sq. Km. from
Piraeus, and population of 4,000 people. Temple of Poseidon: The ancient ruins of the Temple of Poseidon are to found 5 km from the main town, on the road to the monastery of Zoodochos Pighis. |
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The temple was built in the 6th century B.C. According to legend, this is where Demosthenes drank the "konio" poison in 322 B.C. and died. The Monastery: The history of the Monastery reaches back to the beginning of the 18th century, when a bishop from Athens, Iakovos II, was cured by drinking water from a spring at Poros |
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Poros island