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Cape Sounio Southernmost Cape of Attica Sounio is the southernmost headland of Attica, 38 km from Athens, where on the formed hill of 60 meters which was formed by the leveling of the area the Temple of Poseidon was placed with (6) six columns on its short sides and (13) on its long sides from which (15) Doric Columns remain that is why in later times it took the name "Cape of Columns" (Κάβο κολώνες ή Καβοκολώνες).
! Temple of Poseidon, Sounio © 2017 A. Baltoyannis
Of course this was a geostrategic area from where the Athenians supervised the movement of ships entering the Saronic Gulf and guarded the precious minerals of Lavrion and finally controlled the sea routes to Euboea which the Athenians of the 5th Century had conquered and had placed there 4,000 colonists from Attica and from which - because of the fertility of the island took the plant and animal products of the earth, but also supervised the movement to the Cyclades which participated in the Athenian Alliance seated in
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