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A private day trip to the real Corinth Canal and genuine ancient Corinth ruins.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at the genuine Corinth Canal and ancient Corinth archaeological site.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the genuine Corinth Canal, a dramatic cut through solid rock, and the ancient Corinth archaeological site.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Athens.
Genuine dramatic engineering feat.
A real, genuine archaeological site.
6-7 hours, just your group.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at the genuine Corinth Canal and ancient Corinth archaeological site. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include the genuine Corinth Canal, a dramatic cut through solid rock, and the ancient Corinth archaeological site.
The real Corinth Canal, a sheer 6.4-kilometer cut through solid limestone separating the Gulf of Corinth from the Saronic Gulf, wasn't finished until 1893 — but the idea of carving a shortcut across the narrow Isthmus of Corinth goes back far further. The 7th-century BCE Corinthian tyrant Periander is said to have first proposed it, settling instead for building the Diolkos, a genuine paved slipway still partly visible today, on which ships and their cargo were hauled overland across the isthmus on wheeled carts. Roman emperors took the idea more seriously: Julius Caesar and Caligula are both said to have considered it, and Emperor Nero actually began digging in 67 CE, reportedly breaking ground himself with a golden pickaxe, using a workforce the historian Josephus records as roughly 6,000 Jewish prisoners of war. The project was abandoned when Nero died shortly afterward, and the canal as it exists today was finally built between 1882 and 1893 by Hungarian and Greek engineers, opening on 25 July 1893 — nearly 2,500 years after Periander first floated the idea. At just 21 meters wide at its base, it's long since been too narrow for most modern cargo ships, and is used today mostly by smaller vessels, tour boats, and the occasional bungee jumper.
Ancient Corinth itself tells a two-act story. The original Greek city-state was destroyed by the Romans under the general Lucius Mummius in 146 BCE as punishment for leading a revolt against Roman rule, then refounded a century later, in 44 BCE, as a Roman colony by Julius Caesar — and it went on to become one of the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan cities in the entire Roman province of Achaea. The archaic Temple of Apollo, built in the 6th century BCE and one of the oldest standing temples anywhere in Greece, still has seven of its original 38 monolithic limestone columns standing on the site today. Corinth also has a real, well-documented biblical connection: the Apostle Paul lived and preached here for about 18 months around 50–52 CE, according to the Acts of the Apostles, and later wrote his two New Testament letters to the Corinthians to the Christian community he had founded in this same city.
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