Troizen (Trizina) - Site

From the village of Trizína a footpath leads in 25minutes to the scattered ancient remains of Troizen. After crossing the line of the town walls and passing through the much overgrown town center, with the remains of a temple of Athena Soteira and a number of churches, we come to a road fork, with a large stone known as the "Stone of Theseus". This is the stone under which Theseus's father hid his weapons, and which the young Theseus was able to raise so as to recover the weapons. The road to the right leads to the sanctuary of Hippolytos, with the remains of buildings of the fourth and third centuries B.C. The temple of Hippolytos (late fourth century B.C.) had 6 x 11 columns. To the northwest are a peristyle building of some size which is interpreted as an Asklepieion or a sacred refectory, a small temple of Aphrodite Kataskopia (?) and a Byzantine episcopal church (11th C.), with the bishop's palace adjoining. To the southwest are some foundations which may belong to the tomb of Phaidra.

The road to the left at the fork leads to a Roman vaulted building and, after a left-hand bend, a Hellenistic tower which was rebuilt in the Frankish period. The road continues to the "Devil's Bridge" over an ancient aqueduct, which no doubt originally drew water from the spring on the other side.