The temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion. This temple, now a tourist destination, provides an interesting history of Greece all by itself. According to myth, king Aegeus flung himself off the of Cape Sounion's cliff, and that is why the sea below is the Aegean Sea. Many signatures have been carved into the columns of the temple, including Lord Byron's, during the Greek revolution. Now, when not visited by school children or the wayward undergrad, Poseidon's temple lays frozen in time.
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