Taxi tour to Epicurios Apollo, from Katakolo port

The temple of Epicurios Apollo is 95 km away east from Katakolon.  
It's a 90 minutes drive, we go through little villages and beautiful hills.  You will need 1 hour to visit the temple.

During the trip we can stop at  Andritsaina for coffee or a glass of water from the spring at the square of the village.

The temple of Epicurios Apollo stands at a height of 1130 m on Mount Kotilio 14 km south of Andritsaina.  At this site which was called Vassai (little valleys) in antiquity the inhabitants of nearby Phigaleia founded a sanctuary of Apollo Bassitas in the 7th BC where they worshipped the god with the epithet Epicurios - supporter in war or illness. 

The temple of Apollo in the sanctuary at Vassai is one of the best - preserved monuments of the ancient Classical world.  It was built from 420 to 400 BC on the site of an earlier Archaic Temple.  It is believed that the temple was built in honor of  Epicurios Apollo, as gratitude for saving their Town from a plague.  

The traveler Pausanias, who visited and admired the monument in the middle of the 2nd C. AD states that its architect was Iktinos who was also the architect of the Parthenon in Athens. Lately, a long-term restoration program has been in progress.

The objective is to solve fundamentally and definitely all the monuments problems so as to maintain it for the centuries to come. Since 1986 the temple has been under the unesco protection as a monument which makes part of the World cultural Heritage.