Travel to Greece - Ep 1: From the Corinth Canal to Tolo. Incredible visit of the ancient Corinth 4K

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Discover our new adventure in #Greece and the #Balkans. Between history and gastronomy, this journey of several weeks will make you discover splendid places from the air. Please note that all the images, even those in #drone are shot in 4K.

In this first #episode, we leave from #Montreal to #Athens. You will follow us from one airport to another and you will see us renting our car for this first part of the trip which consists of a visit of the #Peloponnese.

0:52 - Departure from Montreal
1:47 - Arrival in Athens
2:35 - Visit of the Corinth Canal
4:08 - Stop in the modern city of Corinth
4:27 - Discovery of the ancient city of Corinth
7:23 - The beautiful view of Acrocorinth
8:18 - On the way to Tolo
9:02 - Excellent meal at Chez Gilles restaurant

First stop: Corinth Canal
The Corinth Canal (Modern Greek: Διώρυγα της Κορίνθου) is an artificial waterway dug through the Isthmus of Corinth, Greece, to connect the Gulf of Corinth in the Ionian Sea to the west with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea to the east. The Corinth Canal makes the Peloponnese an island, since it pierces the isthmus linking this peninsula to the rest of the Greek territory.

The canal is 6 343 m long and 24.60 m wide. The trench reaches a maximum height of 52 m for a depth of 8 meters. It allows ships to avoid a 400 km detour around the Peloponnese peninsula. It is therefore mainly used in 2016 by tourist ships, pleasure boats and small cruise ships. Approximately 11,000 ships use this route each year.

Second stop: The modern city of Corinth
During the Greek War of Independence, the city of Corinth was destroyed. However, in 1832, it was among the candidates for the rank of capital of the kingdom of Greece. In 1858, a major earthquake totally destroyed Corinth, so much so that it was decided to create a new city on a modern plan, 3 km north-east of the old one, on the Gulf of Corinth.

Third stop: The ancient city of Corinth
The ancient city was probably founded during the Bronze Age and must have had a palace from the Mycenaean period. However, archaeological evidence from this period is scarce. Corinth was an important merchant city, controlling the Isthmus of Corinth connecting the Peloponnese to the rest of Greece and crossed by the diolkos, a 6 km paved towpath allowing ships to avoid bypassing the Peloponnese. It competed with Athens on the economic and cultural level. On several occasions, in particular during the Peloponnesian war, it approached Sparta and was its ally against Athens.

According to Pindar, Corinth was considered to be the origin of the dithyramb, the art of training horses and architecture. It is also for the citizens of the city that the apostle Paul wrote his two famous epistles to the Corinthians.

Fourth stop: Acrocorinth
Acrocorinth (Modern Greek: Ακροκόρινθος / Akrokórinthos) is the citadel of ancient Corinth, now the modern city of Corinth. The site, defending the Isthmus of Corinth, was occupied from the life century BC to the nineteenth century and has many remains of the various occupants - Corinthians, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, Venetians and Ottomans - who succeeded one another.

Arrival in Tolo :
We end our day by going to the small seaside village of Tolo, located in the Gulf of Nafplio. It is a very quiet place where we decided to spend two days. The place has several excellent restaurants, but for this first evening we decided to go to the restaurant Chez Gilles, operated by Gilles and Maria Trotereau since 1985. Honestly, the meal was fantastic.

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[marcguenoun-coversfingerst]

Hi, good video and beautiful country, like 14. Thanks for sharing and have a good week-end my friend, see you soon

[travel_nature_and_life]

Really incredible Trip full of History 👍🧡🧡

[eddydv]

Very good tour. Beautiful places. Thank you.🤗😁👍✌️

[FXWalesAnnaAlf]

Hi this was so good to watch. The canal looked wonderful and its great that you can bungee jump there and I think you said this canal has been open since 1893. It was nice to glimpse the modern city of Corinth but even nicer to see the ancient city where you mentioned Paul writing in 2 Corinthians. You ended the day nice with that delicious looking meal and the dessert looked amazing ! Great video 👍 ~ Anna

[Millerium-MichaelMiller]

Wonderful landscape and nice flight my friend ... Keep up the great work😊Greetings from warm Greece !!

[TakisTravel]

Wonderful presentation. 👍
Friendly greetings from Athens.

[traveldiarieswithadi]

Wow. Incredible journey all the way from cannada to Athens ..the flight looked comfortable. It's a good idea to rent a car here to explore the country in the b at way. The canal looks awesome. Frankly I never heard of it when I visited Greece 7 years back ..corynth is definitely a beautiful city full of history.

[blendedtravels]

The canal is so interesting because the water level is so deep! But I don't think I would do any bungee jumping. LOL. The ruins of the ancient city of Corinth is pretty amazing. The evening meal looked really good also. Nice to see you back with a new video. Take care!

[annamazing]

Amazing place..I really enjoy while watching your video..in my personal life I'll never been there...so thank you for sharing your video

[GENerationXplorers]

👍6 mask wearing still required? Gosh! Great flight. I remember when mask wearing was required and you would buy a can of coke on take off and nurse it till landing so you didn’t have to wear it! Everyone did the same trick! Wow that canal is stunning, what an amazing feat! Wow the ancient site is wonderfully preserved! Such amazing history! Loved the driving, great edit! What a lovely meal! ♥️

[TheGrayLifewithJimPearl]

Ok we are in the non bungee jumping group. Go info about needing a international license. We have heard much about the city of Corinth. We enjoyed you showing us this ancient city