After their victory over the Persians in 490 BC, the Athenians put up this treasury building as a thank-offering to Apollo. We were absolutely awed by the workmanship of the craftsmen of those times. It is indeed a beautiful building that stood the ravages of time and climate quite well.

The huge mountain of Phaidriades towers over the sanctuary at Delphi. The locals call the two rocky summits Yambeia and Nauplia. The buildings were terraced up the mountainside, and the Temple of Apollo stood in the middle of this sanctuary on a terracesupported by the Polygonal wall.

 This is the Temple of Athena, a goddess, not quite as powerful as Apollo. This shrine to her was built just below the Kastalian spring, It was destroyed a few times by earthquakes, and rebuilt, and today, with the havoc that time and the elements played, it is hard to imagine how beautiful it really was. Athena was not as popular as Apollo, but a good many people liked to worship a woman goddess.

The Temple of Apollo stood at the heart of this sacred place, surrounded by a lot of other buildings and collonades. This was the house of the god himself, and was also destroyed by earthquakes. Today only this ruin is left, but once it was from here that the powerful Apollo prophetised to the Pythoness, who then gave council and advice to the mere mortals who came to consult him.