Corinth invented the Doric order in stone and exported its painted pottery from Spain to the Black Sea. This three-day route follows that visual lineage through museum vitrines, a Byzantine monastery, a fortress with three layers of gate architecture and the working art scene of modern Korinthos.
Seven monolithic Doric columns of c.560 BCE — cut from single blocks of local limestone, not drums, an archaic technique almost nowhere else in Greece. Site opens 08:00, last entry 19:30 summer. Combined site+museum ticket €8 (€4 reduced).
The marble-paved processional street descending north from the agora, flanked by a colonnade and a row of vaulted Roman shops — the clearest surviving example of Roman commercial architecture grafted onto a Greek city plan, with wheel ruts still cut into the paving.
The reference collection of Protocorinthian and Corinthian black-figure ware: miniature aryballoi with incised animal friezes, the orientalising griffins and rosettes that Athens later copied. Open 08:00–20:00 summer, 08:30–15:30 winter.
The courtyard displays second-century CE floor mosaics lifted from Corinthian villas — a bull, cattle and a shepherd in fine tesserae — alongside the Julian Basilica portrait statues of Augustus and Gaius Caesar in Parian marble.
575m citadel whose triple gateway stacks Byzantine, Frankish and Venetian masonry on a fourth-century BCE base. Inside: the ruined Fatih Mehmet mosque, cisterns and the Upper Peirene spring chamber. Free entry, 08:00–15:00.
The village's post-1928-earthquake parish church, rebuilt in a restrained neo-Byzantine idiom with a domed cross-in-square plan and modern hagiographies — a working example of how Greek church painters still follow Palaiologan compositional rules.
Three floors of Corinthia costume, embroidery and silverwork on Ethnikis Antistaseos by the harbour: bridal dresses from Nemea and Trikala Korinthias, gold-thread velvet jackets and domestic weaving looms. Ticket around €2.
The town's programming hub off Ethnikis Anexartisias: winter theatre from touring Athenian companies, municipal choir and mandolin-orchestra concerts, and rotating exhibitions by the Corinthian artists' association in the ground-floor gallery.
A cliff monastery at 650m above Loutraki reached by 144 steps, built around the cave holding the eleventh-century relic of Saint Patapios. Modern wall-painting cycles cover the cave chapel; open roughly 08:00–13:00 and 16:00–18:00, entry free.
The small museum beside the Sanctuary of Poseidon holds the Kenchreai glass opus sectile panels — crated Egyptian glass wall-pictures of harbours and philosophers, buried by the 375 CE earthquake before they were ever hung.
Home of the Isthmian Games, one of the four Panhellenic festivals with their own musical and poetic contests. The stone starting gate (hysplex) mechanism and the temple foundations survive; site entry around €4, closed Tuesdays.
Forty minutes southwest, the Agiorgitiko vineyards of the Nemea PDO run cellar tastings in converted stone warehouses; several estates hang contemporary Greek painting in the barrel halls and host harvest concerts each September.