Church
MarkopouloAgia Paraskevi, Town Centre
Small post-Byzantine church near the central square, with paintings by Georgios Markou.
Culture
Archaeology at Brauron, churches on the bay, and the Olympic venues of 2004.
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The Archaeological Museum of Brauron holds the finds from the sanctuary and makes the site legible: votive statues of children, reliefs, and everyday objects from the cult of Artemis.
Around the bay and in the town, small churches and chapels mark the rhythm of the year, and the Olympic Equestrian Centre built for the 2004 Games gives the plain an unexpected modern landmark.
Churches and chapels
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Church
MarkopouloAgia Thekla Church
Post-Byzantine church beside Agia Paraskevi, with wall paintings dated to 1767.
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Angelisi, MarkopouloAgia Triada at Angelisi
Double-aisled vaulted church with post-Byzantine paintings and reused architectural fragments.
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Merenda, MarkopouloAgios Athanasios, Merenda
Small vaulted rural chapel, probably eighteenth-century, with a modern narthex.
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Dagla, MarkopouloAgios Dimitrios, Dagla
Post-Byzantine church with a later narthex and paintings associated with the school of Georgios Markou.
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Vravrona countrysideAgios Dimitrios, Vravrona
Rural post-Byzantine chapel retaining eighteenth-century sanctuary paintings, rebuilt in 1915.
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Vravrona archaeological siteAgios Georgios at Brauron
Small domed church within the archaeological site, with late-sixteenth-century wall paintings.
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Kadi, MarkopouloAgios Georgios at Kadi
Chapel with thirteenth-century paintings and reused ancient sculpture; the dating of its building phases is debated.
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Pounta, Porto RaftiAgios Nikolaos, Harbour
Post-Byzantine chapel on the Pounta peninsula, along the approach to the harbour pier.
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Porto RaftiAgios Spyridon Church
Seafront post-Byzantine church at the northern end of the bay, built over an earlier Christian structure.
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Klisa Moschou, MarkopouloAgios Thomas Chapel
Small post-Byzantine chapel on Agiou Thoma Street, altered by later repairs.
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MarkopouloEvangelistria Church
Post-Byzantine church on Evangelistrias Street, within a private enclosure.
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Museum
Archaeological Museum of Brauron
Built in 1962 beside the sanctuary: votive reliefs, statues of children, toys, mirrors and rare wooden offerings preserved by the marsh.
Cultural site
Archaeological Site of Brauron
The sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia, one of the oldest and most revered in Attica, bound up with Iphigenia and the rite of the “little bears”.
Church
St Marina Church
A white seaside church on the south shore of the bay, built in 1949–1951 on a coast where an older church of Saint Marina once stood.
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Sports venue
Olympic Equestrian Centre
The venue of the Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic equestrian events, still used by the Hellenic Equestrian Federation for its competitions.