Route 1: Vouliagmenis Avenue

Alimos Metro station

At Alimos metro station, 300 m south of the Mycenaean settlement, an extensive workshop installation of the Mycenaean period came to light. Archaeologists have also interpreted this complex as an installation for processing flax or other raw materials used in basketry, mat-making, weaving and similar crafts.

Koumoundourou – Gounari – Michalakopoulou

The area has been known since antiquity as Kontopigado. More complete and extensive building remains survive from the second phase of the Early Helladic period (2,800–2,300 BC). At the southern end of the hill, stone foundations of houses were found, divided into small rooms and laid out on either side of a narrow street. A complex of spaces and rooms with straight and apsidal walls was also found, adjoining a large hall to the west of the settlement. The workshop areas of the settlement were located on the top of the hill, while the residential core of the installation was surrounded by an enclosure wall with at least two entrances.

Today these settlement remains are preserved, visible and protected, in the unified basement of the Stavropoulos and Atlantic stores. The antiquities of the third plot are also preserved visible, but exposed, in the courtyard of the OAED Apprenticeship School.

Theatre of Euonymon

East of today’s boundaries of the Geroulanos estate, excavation brought to light in 1973 the theatre of Euonymon, with a capacity of 2,500 spectators. Of the theatre there survive the stage building — the oldest surviving structure — the rectangular orchestra, the marble thrones of the front row and part of the cavea.

Early Christian basilica at the Church of Zoodochos Pigi

On the site where the Church of Zoodochos Pigi stands today there was an Early Christian basilica. It was a cemetery church, as shown by the ten graves found in the narthex along the southern side of a small single-aisled basilica.

Marathonomachon Square

On the site now called Marathonomachon Square an important funerary enclosure has been uncovered, as well as an extensive workshop for building materials. Of the enclosure the south-west corner survives; during the excavations two marble sarcophagi, two child burials in clay larnakes and a pyre with clay vessels and alabastra of the 5^th century were uncovered.

In Marathonomachon Square a pottery workshop was found that operated from the 4^th – 2^th century BC. Its long life was perhaps due to the successful choice of site, since it lay at the crossroads of two main arteries of the area (Alimou – Vouliagmenis) and close to Cape Kolias, from where the necessary supplies of clay were obtained.