So we decided to take a trip to visit Marathon on our last day in Greece. Surprisingly, there isn't a great deal to do besides visiting the Marathon Running Museum and the Battle of Marathon Athenian Burial Tomb. They also have the classic marathon course set up with mile markers all the way into Athens, so that was a nice hidden surprise!
We decided to take a look at both attractions while visiting Marathon and also help support the museum! They had some really interesting stuff in here. The museum is organized by year, with the newest year being at the start of the museum. It must be a pain in the ass to shift every exhibit along each year LOL!
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Hours of Operation:
Tuesday - Friday: 09.00 to 15.00
Saturday - Sunday: 10.00 to 14.00
The permanent exhibition of the Olympic Marathon presents for the first time to the Greek public the history of the Olympic Marathon from 1896 to 2000.
Over than 3,100 exhibits record the history of the Marathon race from 1896 to today. This constitutes a unique historic sports collection which could not be found anywhere else other than at the birthplace of the Marathon road race.
The exhibition is divided into two major sections. In the first building, the history of the Olympic Marathon Race is presented through the collection of rare objects. In the second, the global movement of the Marathon race is recorded in individual thematic sections dedicated to the Marathon races held in every corner of the planet, to Olympic champions, to the presence of women in Marathon races, as well as to the equipment of the Marathon athletes.
Among the precious exhibits are the medal of the first winner of the Olympic Marathon road race Spyros Louis, a copy of the cup that he was awarded at the Panathenaic Stadium in 1896 and some of his personal belongings.
Marathon (Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas; Attic/Katharevousa: Μαραθών, Marathṓn) is a town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians. The tumulus or burial mound (Greek Τύμβος, tymbos, tomb) of the 192 Athenian dead, also called the "Soros", which was erected near the battlefield, remains a feature of the coastal plain. The Tymbos is now marked by a marble memorial stele and surrounded by a small park.
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