Marathon - Village (Burial Mound)

The large modern village of Marathon (Marathónas) lies near the east coast of Attica, 5km/3mi north of the battlefield of Marathon, on which is the 12m/40ft high burial mound (sorós) raised over the remains of the 192 Athenians who fell in the battle. At the foot of the mound is a replica of the funerary stele of Aristion (ca. 510 B.C.; original in National Archeological Museum, Athens). From the top of the mound there is a view of the battlefield, with the wide arc of the bay in which the Persians landed to the northeast and the site of the Athenian camp to the west, at the foot of Mt Agrielíki.

3km/2mi north of the burial mound on the road to the village of Marathónas a side road goes off on the left to the hamlet of Vranás, with the burial mound of the Plataeans, a prehistoric necropolis (under a protective roof) and a museum.