Galaxidi is a blessed place. The variety and mellowness of the landscape offers natural beauty and advantages: the hills near the coast provide places for settlement, the small but fertile valleys and the gentle slopes cultivable land, while the surrounding mountain ranges protection and ample water…

Around 300 B.C. Galaxidi moves for the first time to today’s position. On the initiative probably of the Aitolean Confederacy, which in that period occupied Western Lokris, the fortification wall of Chaleion was built on the rocky peninsula between the two harbours. Because of its impregnable, more than 8 m high wall…

In the area of Agios Vlassis, two bronze plates with inscriptions were found in 1848, which ended up in the British Μuseum. They are dated in the first half of the 5th c. B.C. and are extremely important not only for the region but for the whole of Greek history. The first refers to the participation of the Chaleians in the* colonization of Southern Italy by the Lokrians…

The Chaleians, like the rest of the ancient Greeks, lived a simple life. The majority were land and animal farmers, and many must have lived off the sea as fishermen or merchants. Their everyday life did not differ a great deal from that of the Greek villagers up until the 1960’s. It began at dawn and ended at dusk…

The most important sanctuary of the Chaleians was dedicated to Apollo* the Islander (Nasiotes). Its location has not been identified with certainty yet. The epithet of the god suggests that his sanctuary may have been located on an island, possibly the small island of Apsifia, or at the top of…

Some bronze objects, especially vessels, have come to light from the area of Agios Vlassis and from excavations of tombs. However, numerous artefacts originating from Galaxidi are exhibited in museums in Europe and America, smuggled during the second half of the 19th c…

Αncient Greeks did not travel for pleasure but mainly out of need. They used sea communications more than today because there were not many land routes. It is noteworthy that until the construction of the coastal road during the 1960’s, the people from Galaxidi communicated with Itea…

wo cemeteries and also some isolated tombs have been excavated in the area of Galaxidi. The cemetery of the Geometric settlement at Agios Athanasios consisted of eight cist-graves (1). The dead were placed on their side with the knees bent to the chest, together with rich offerings, such as clay…

The coins on display were found during excavations of local sites…

Marcus Antonius, a Roman general, known for his fated relationship with Cleopatra, the Ptolemaic Queen of Egypt. In 38-37 B.C., during a period of conflict for the domination of Eastern Mediterranean…

In 1970 the English archaeologist, S. Hood, had noted the existence of a shelter-settlement on the islet of Agios Georgios near Galaxidi. From the potsherds he found during a superficial exploration there…