ZEUS AMMON SANCTUARY

On the edge of Kallithea's main beach, this small archaeological site (Ιερό Άμμωνος Διός/Iero Ammonos Dios) houses the remains of a sanctuary and thermal bath of the ancient city of Aphytis. Here, Dionysus (associated with the cult of the Nymphs), the god of medicine Asclepius and the Greco-Egyptian god Zeus Ammon were honored together. The latter's temple, dating from the ^4th century BC, was framed by two rows of statues. The complex was abandoned in the^5th century and destroyed by Russian monks from the Agios Pantelimonos monastery on Athos.