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57% of people who have been to Corinth think it's worth visiting. The most popular destinations in Corinth are Courthouse Square, The Crossroads Arena, and Corinth Theatre-Arts.


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  • travel.nytimes.com Introduction to Corinth by FROMMER'S November 20, 2006 Today, as in antiquity, Corinth, along with Patras, is one of the two major gateways to the Peloponnese. Still, gates are for passage, not for lingering. Stop to see the ships slipping through the impressive Corinth Canal that cuts across the isthmus, then head straight for ancient Corinth, in the hamlet of Archaia Korinthos (Old Corinth), bypassing the modern city altogether. Mycenae and Nafplion have excellent hotels and restaurants -- and both are about an hour's drive from Corinth. In fact, the entire modern town of Corinth (pop. 24,000) has remarkably little to recommend it. The town was moved here in 1834, after an earthquake devastated the settlement at ancient Corinth; successive earthquakes in 1858, 1928, and 1981 destroyed virtually every interesting building in the new town. Corinth is now a thicket of undistinguished, flat-roofed buildings, supposedly built to withstand future quakes. (read article)
  • query.nytimes.com Ancient to The Ancients by MAUREEN B. FANT; February 26, 1995 (read article)
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