Assini

Assini

is a big village, just 8 kilometers from Nafplio. 

The village has its own modern life while communicating with the fate of the neighboring tourist Tolo and coastal Assini. It is built in the valley with citrus (mandarins, oranges). It has 1,279 inhabitants. 500m. at the foot of the hill Prophet. Elias is the picturesque village of Agia Paraskevi with about 200 inhabitants and a wonderful view over the valley.

During the Mycenaean period Asini associated with street Mycenae and a seaport.Homer mentions the “list of new (ship) between the cities that had sent troops to Troy during the Trojan War.

The city was conquered in 740 BC (Or 700) from Argos, despite the heroic resistance of the inhabitants, who eventually abandoned. The Argives destroyed it completely, apart from the Temple of Apollo Pythaea. The people settled in Messinia and there they built a new city.

During the Hellenistic period the city was rebuilt Assini Argolida. Around the constructed wall. In 1922 the excavations of the Swedish Archaeological School at Athens revealed that there were remains of fortifications from the Second and the Third Millennium BC Remains discovered in the ancient citadel, the highest part of the peninsula. Also, the slopes of a hill northwest discovered a cemetery of Mycenaean and other geometric period. Graves found many interesting items. But there are ruins from the Hellenistic and the Roman period. The devastation of ancient argoliki the state gives way to an excellent poet George Seferis in his poem “The King of Assini.

Sights:

The ancient citadel of

Assini

rising on top of steep hill at the edge of the sea, about a km before Tolo.

 With a busy life since the dawn of the Bronze Age, as demonstrated by the findings of the excavation reached a peak in the Mycenaean, PG and Geometric times. The ancient town mentioned in Homer’s Iliad, and inspired by Nobel laureate poet George Seferis one of the aisthantikotera poems. Today traces of prehistoric settlement, parts of the imposing structure polygonal enclosure of the citadel, and Hellenistic towers that retain their medieval repairs. On a hill opposite the citadel excavated Mycenaean, Hellenistic, Roman tombs.
; The churches of the Transfiguration, 16th century., Northwest of the Assini and the Prophet Elias, on top of a hill near

Name – History.

The excavations of Sweden, King Gustav, 1922, steriosan finally the myth of Assini.On this rock Kastraki or Paliokastro were the walls and ruins. The state of Asini destroyed by the Argives in 740 BC (The only respected by Argos was the temple of Apollo Pythaeos. There they buried the henchman of the Lysistrata). 

Anchient Assini is one of three states that occupied the Dryopes. The rock of Asini located between the beach of Tolo and Plaka. In ancient tombs found many jewels and swords.

Assini in the years of Ottoman rule, called Tzaferaga, a name was given by the Turks.Its name was taken from the Governor (Aga Xhaferi). In 1902 was renamed and given the name Asini from Anchient Assini, whose ruins are preserved in beach Kastraki.Here there is the Acropolis of Assini.