Epidauros - Katagogion

From the theater at Epidauros we walk past the museum to the remains of the Katagogion, a large guesthouse or hostel 76.3m/250ft square, which had 160 rooms on two floors. 100m/110yd west of this are baths and, just to the north, a Gymnasion (76m/249ft square) which was converted into an Odeion in Roman times. In the central square, approached from the north by a sacred way passing through propylaia, are the principal buildings of the sanctuary, surrounded by stoas in which pilgrims slept while awaiting cure: the Doric temple of Asklepios (380-375 B.C.) and the circular Tholos (360-330 B.C.) by Polykleitos the Younger. Of the Tholos only the foundations survive, with a system of concentric passages in which the snakes sacred to Asklepios