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Archaeological Museum of Brauron
Museum
Vravrona valley
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Built in 1962 beside the sanctuary: votive reliefs, statues of children, toys, mirrors and rare wooden offerings preserved by the marsh.
250 m to the next stop
Heritage
Brauron, from the sanctuary to the sea
The finds in the museum, the sanctuary of Artemis, a painted chapel inside the site, then the wetland path down to the bay at Hamolia.
- Full day
- 5 stops
- 2.2 km end to end
- 5 with audio
Start with the museum, which shows finds from the sanctuary and the wider Mesogeia, then walk the sanctuary of Artemis by the Erasinos. Inside the site, the small domed church of Agios Georgios keeps late-sixteenth-century paintings.
From the museum a path follows the wetland, a Natura 2000 area where 88 bird species were recorded in a single year, down to the bay at Hamolia for a swim and lunch by the water.
Full day · 5 stops · 2.2 km end to end
The route
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Archaeological Site of Brauron
Cultural site
Vravrona valley
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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”.
100 m to the next stop
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Agios Georgios at Brauron
Church
Vravrona archaeological site
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Small domed church within the archaeological site, with late-sixteenth-century wall paintings.
Inside the archaeological site, open in site hours; the chapel itself is kept closed by the archaeological service.
450 m to the next stop
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Vravrona Wetland Path
Nature trail
Erasinos estuary
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A protected Natura 2000 wetland at the mouth of the Erasinos: reedbeds, wet meadows and 88 bird species recorded in a single year.
1.4 km to the next stop
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Hamolia
Beach
Vravrona bay
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A sandy, unorganised beach on the south shore of the Vravrona bay, shaded by tamarisks, its water rated excellent in every published assessment since 2018.
The bay is just over 1.6 km from the museum car park.
Where to eat here
Distances are straight-line.
Before you go
- Full day
- 5 stops
- The route
- 2.2 km end to end
- Best months
- Mar — Jun, Sep — Nov
- Audio guide
- 5 with audio
- The museum and the site keep the same published hours: 08:30–15:30, closed on Tuesdays, last admission 20 minutes before closing, with a separate ticket for each. Check holiday changes with the Ministry of Culture.
- In summer, do the museum and the site first and leave the walk and the swim for later in the day.
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Porto Rafti, around the bay
From Agios Spyridon at the northern end of the bay to the harbour at Pounta, Raftis islet across the water, St Marina and a swim at Avlaki.
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