Listed traditional settlement, Town hall, Province capital, Municipal district, Modern monuments, Archaeological site, Acropolis, Byzantine castle/fortress, Ancient theatre, Ancient city
ARGOS (Town, Town hall) belongs to ARGOS (Municipality (Kapodistrias plan)) ARGOS (Municipality (Kapodistrias plan)) belongs to ARGOS - MYKINES (Municipality (Kallikratis plan)) ARGOS - MYKINES (Municipality (Kallikratis plan)) belongs to ARGOLIS (Prefecture) ARGOLIS (Prefecture) belongs to PELOPONISSOS (Region) PELOPONISSOS (Region) belongs to GREECE (Country)
On the one hand the geographic mark of the city, placed within the
boundaries of Argolis fertile
plain, close to road axes that link North Peloponnese
to Aegean and Mediterranean
Sea under the defensive stand of its high hills (Larissa
279m, Aspida 80m) on the
other, underlie the main reasons that Argos was inhabited continually.
Argos is the most important agricultural, industrial and export center
of the wider Argolis region,
due to systematic cultivation and industries of processing, packaging and distribution
of citrus products as well as those of building material, marble, distillery and
winery, processing and standardization of olive oil, pump manufacturing and package
machinery etc.
Argos, commercial center on the region from ancient times, continues
to be the area’s trade center even today. Its inhabitants surpass the 30.000
people and that makes Argos the most dense of Argolis
Prefecture.
(Text: Nikos Petropoulos) This text (extract) is cited March 2004 from the Municipality
of Argos tourist pamphlet.
Distances:
137 Kilometers Northeast (NE) the capital of the country: ATHENS, Town, GREECE 12 Kilometers Southeast (SE) the prefectural capital NAFPLIO, Town, ARGOLIS,
GREECE 8,2 Kilometers East (E) TIRYNS, Mycenean palace, ARGOLIS,
GREECE 52,1 Kilometers East (E) the municipality seat EPIDAVROS, Small town, ARGOLIS,
GREECE
Argos ancient theater, built in the 4th century BC, it held 15,000 spectators on the seats hewn from the rock; there were marble places for honored persons
Argos, Archaeological museum, fragment of a 7th cent. krater, depicting the blindness of Cyclops Polyphemus by Odysseus
