Ancient Theatre at the Asklepieion of Epidaurus
Limestone theatre of the fourth century BC, famed for its acoustics and serving a healing sanctuary.
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This guide to the Ancient Theatre at the Asklepieion of Epidaurus, near Nafplio, starts with the coin every visitor drops on the orchestra floor and a Dutch acoustics team that tested the trick in twenty seventeen. From there it turns to the healing god Asklepios, the miracle-cure tablets his sanctuary carved in the fourth century BC, and the blind, the scarred and the sceptical who came to be cured. Best heard from the middle rows, looking down at the round orchestra.
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