Some of the most outstanding include 3,500-year-old palaces at Mycenae and Pylos; the incredibly well-preserved theater at Epidaurus; Olympia ... Byzantine churches. Peloponnese also has infinite ...

While one legends claims the games were established by Heracles (Hercules), who brought a sacred olive tree to Olympia ... (from which the name of the Peloponnese region of Greece originates ...

were held at Olympia, a rural sanctuary in west Peloponnese. Olympia garnered its name from Mount Olympus, the highest ...

The first games took place at Olympia – a small town on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece – around 776BE and continued to take place every four years for nearly twelve centuries. Sorry Cheryl.