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Drakospito (Dragon House]

DrakospitoJust below the peak of mountain Ochi we find the most important and enigmatic monument: the Drakospito (Dragon House)

The archaeologists maintain that it may have been a place of worship dedicated to Hera or Hercules. According to mythology the coupling between Hera and Jupiter happened on the top of OCHI. The mountain was named due to that event (OHIA = Copulation, Join).

The construction is made of huge monolithic stones and the thickness of the walls reaches up to 1.5m. This building is one of the earliest samples of architecture in our country (6th - 7th century B.C.) and was thus named by the natives, due to the huge stones - weighting many tons each - with which it had been built

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