From 150€
Per Person
We visit Ancient Corinth & Modern Corinth as travelers, not as tourists. We get as excited as you, we love traveling, history, scenery & Photography. Schedule is flexible, but most importantly our tour drivers are seasoned travelers and are dedicated to helping you live the tour of your life, that is suited to your needs and lifestyle, allowing all passengers to enjoy the scenic views, stopping wherever you desire.
If you want to see most of Ancient – Modern Corinth and surrounding areas, then we suggest to combine all sites in a full day private tour. Depart from your location, drive via Canal (short stop) to Peloponnese. Continue to Corinth. Visit Ancient Corinth & Acrocorinth castle. Visit Modern Corinth and Famous Statues of Alexander’s and Diogenes and learn their legendary dialogue. Continue to Diolkos.
The Diolkos was an ingenious, 6–8 km paved trackway built around 600 BC near Ancient Corinth, designed to drag ships across the Isthmus of Corinth. It served as a vital, high-speed shortcut between the Ionian and Aegean Seas, allowing vessels to avoid the dangerous 700-km journey around the Peloponnese peninsula.
1) Corinth Canal, famous for being one of the narrowest navigable canals in the world, with dramatic, near-vertical rock walls Links the Gulf of Corinth (Ionian Sea) with the Saronic Gulf (Aegean Sea). Length & Width: Approximately 6.4 km (4 miles) long and only about 25 meters wide, making it impassable for most modern large ships. A millennia-old dream, first conceived in ancient Greece (7th century BC) and attempted by Roman Emperor Nero, but only completed in 1893.
Wealth & Power: One of the largest, most affluent cities of ancient Greece, often competing with Athens and Sparta.
History & Destruction: Originally Greek, destroyed by Rome in 146 BC, then rebuilt as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar in 44 BC.
Strategic Importance: Controlled the Isthmus of Corinth, serving as a primary defense for the Peloponnese peninsula.
According to legend, Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes in Corinth, asking what he could do for him. Diogenes famously replied, “Stand out of my light”. Impressed by his audacity and contentment, Alexander declared, “If I were not Alexander, I would wish to be Diogenes”.
In ancient times, Kenchreai was one of the two ports of the inland city-state of Corinth. While Kenchreai served the eastern trade routes via the Saronic Gulf, Lechaion on the Corinthian Gulf served the trade routes leading west to Italy and the rest of Europe. Situated on the eastern side of the Isthmus of Corinth, Kenchreai sat at a natural crossroads for ships arriving from the east and overland traffic heading north and south between central Greece and the Peloponnese Christianity also arrived at Kenchreai early in the religion’s history. According to Acts 18:18, the Apostle Paul stopped at Kenchreai during his second missionary journey, where he had his hair cut to fulfill a vow, probably a Nazirite vow. Paul mentions the place and a woman named Phoebe in the local assembly in his epistle to the Romans
See All Views Travel offers Private and Flexible tours, just for you, your Family, Friends or your own group.
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For Private Tours: Traveller pickup/drop off is offered from/to your hotel/apartment in/ from Nafplion or Argos up to 7 km, at the arranged time of your tour departure or your tour return.
We recommend that the tour starts at 08:30 or earlier in summer time. If for any reason this is not convenient, you can adjust the time according to your needs.
The tour driver is not a licensed tour guide to accompany you on your walk to any site or museum. If you require an archaeologist guide to tour the sites with you, you need to hire one additionally.
Your professional tour driver provides informative audio/ video documentaries & historical details as you travel.
What should travelers bring with them?
Gratuities in Greece? As the competition between companies and tour drivers is high, our offers cover our main costs (Fuels, road tolls, accommodation, taxes…etc). Tips in Greece, as all over Europe, are optional. However, a tip as a gesture of gratitude for good services offered is always appreciated. There is no standard amount, but depending on the trip’s total cost, this can range between 10% to 20% for transfers or daily tours and 5% to 15% for multiple day tours.
Your tour is private & flexible and available from/ to Nafplion. However we only request to have in mind the agreement hours. But if you like to extend it, please make a fair arrangement with your tour driver/ leader. Additional charge per hour is 35€ (Sedan/SUV) – 50€ (Minivan) – 65€ (Minibus).
Entrance fees:
Corinth Archaeological Site & Museum. Full : 15€, Reduced: 8€in winter time.
Closed on Holidays:
Free admission days:
The following categories of visitors are entitled to free admission:
The following categories of visitors are entitled to 50% reduced admission in tickets:
Cancellations must be confirmed by See All Views Travel
Regarding the Daily Tours: Cancellations up to 24 hours before your travel date are 100% refundable as described on Viator/ TripAdvisor.
Cancellation Policy:
Scenery, Historical, Delphi, Classical, DayTours
Scenery, Historical, Delphi, Classical, DayTours
Scenery, Historical, Delphi, Classical, DayTours
