Central Greece
Phocis
Delphi

Delphi

The archaeological site of Delphi is a UNESCO World Heritage site near the modern village of the same name in , on the southwestern slope of Mount Parnassus, which is part of a mountain range north of the gulf of Corinth.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: ancient town in Greece
  • Also known as: “ancient Delphi”, “Ancient Delphi”, “Archaeological Site of Delphi”, “Delphi (Samian Ware Discovery Site)”, and “Dhelfoí”
Photo: Skyring, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Delphic Sibyl and Delphi Museum.

Historic site
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Pythia was the title of the high priestess of the at Delphi. She specifically served as its oracle and was known as the Oracle of Delphi.

Museum
Photo: Tetraktys, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Delphi Archaeological museum is one of the principal museums of and one of the most visited. It is operated by the Greek Ministry of Culture. Founded in 1903, it has been rearranged several times and houses the discoveries made at the Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi, which date from the Late Helladic period to the early Byzantine era.

Ruins
Photo: Helen Simonsson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , also known as Apollonion, was a major part of the Panhellenic religious sanctuary located in Central Greece at Delphi. The temple and sanctuary at large were dedicated to one of the major Greek deities, Apollo, the god of archery, music, light, prophecy, the arts, and healing.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chrisso.

Village
Photo: Costas78, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village in Phocis, . The modern village sits north of the ancient town of Crissa, a powerful city-state of ancient Greece which gave its name to the Crissaean plain and the Crissaean Gulf and lies in the southwestern foothills of .

Delphi

Latitude
38.4811° or 38° 28′ 52″ north
Longitude
22.5029° or 22° 30′ 10″ east
Population
2,370
Elevation
560 metres (1,837 feet)
Open location code
8GC4FGJ3+F5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 145690044
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
263219
Wiki­data ID
Q75459
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Delphi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Delphi”
  • Albanian: “Delfi”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Δελφοι”
  • Arabic: “Delphi”
  • Arabic: “دلفاي”
  • Arabic: “دلفى”
  • Arabic: “دلفي”
  • Arabic: “دولفي”
  • Arabic: “ديلفي”
  • Armenian: “Դելֆի”
  • Asturian: “Delfos”
  • Azerbaijani: “Delfi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Delphi”
  • Basque: “Delfos”
  • Basque: “Delfoseko Santutegia”
  • Belarusian: “Дэльфы”
  • Bosnian: “Delfi”
  • Breton: “Delfi”
  • Bulgarian: “Делфи”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat de Delfos”
  • Catalan: “Delfos”
  • Cebuano: “Delphi (arkiyolohiyang dapit sa Gresya, Central Greece, lat 38,48, long 22,50)”
  • Cebuano: “Delphi”
  • Chinese: “古代德尔斐”
  • Chinese: “得尔福”
  • Chinese: “德尔斐”
  • Chinese: “德尔菲”
  • Chinese: “德爾菲”
  • Croatian: “Delfi”
  • Czech: “Delfy”
  • Czech: “Delphi”
  • Danish: “Delfi”
  • Dutch: “Belphoi”
  • Dutch: “Dalphoi”
  • Dutch: “Delfi”
  • Dutch: “Delphi”
  • Dutch: “Delphoi”
  • Dutch: “Derphoi”
  • Dutch: “Dolphoi”
  • Dutch: “Pytho”
  • Esperanto: “Delfi”
  • Esperanto: “Delfo”
  • Esperanto: “Delfoj”
  • Esperanto: “Delfoso”
  • Esperanto: “Delphi”
  • Esperanto: “Δελφοί”
  • Estonian: “Delfi”
  • Estonian: “Delphi”
  • Estonian: “Delphoi”
  • Finnish: “Delfoi”
  • French: “Delphes”
  • Galician: “Delfos”
  • Georgian: “დელფო”
  • German: “Delphi”
  • Greek: “Delfoí”
  • Greek: “αρχαίοι Δελφοί”
  • Greek: “Δελφοί”
  • Gujarati: “ડેલ્ફી”
  • Hebrew: “דלפוי”
  • Hebrew: “דלפי”
  • Hindi: “डेल्फी”
  • Hungarian: “Delphoi”
  • Icelandic: “Delfí”
  • Ido: “Delfi”
  • Indonesian: “Delfi”
  • Irish: “Deilfe”
  • Italian: “antica Delfi”
  • Italian: “Delfi”
  • Italian: “Delfo”
  • Italian: “Delphi”
  • Japanese: “デルフィの考古遺跡”
  • Japanese: “デルフォイ”
  • Japanese: “デルフォイの神託”
  • Japanese: “デルフォイ神殿”
  • Japanese: “デルポイ”
  • Japanese: “デルポイの神託”
  • Japanese: “デルポイ神殿”
  • Kazakh: “Дельфы қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Дельфы”
  • Korean: “델포이”
  • Korean: “델피”
  • Kurdish: “Delfî”
  • Latin: “Delphi”
  • Latvian: “Delfi”
  • Lithuanian: “Delfai”
  • Macedonian: “Делфи”
  • Malay: “Delphi”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെൽഫി”
  • Maltese: “Delfi”
  • Maltese: “Delphi”
  • Marathi: “डेल्फी, ग्रीस”
  • Marathi: “डेल्फी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Delfi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delfi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delfí”
  • Norwegian: “Delfi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dèlfes”
  • Persian: “دلفی”
  • Polish: “Delfoi”
  • Polish: “Delfy”
  • Portuguese: “Delfos”
  • Romanian: “Delfi”
  • Romanian: “Delfoi”
  • Romanian: “Delphi, Grecia”
  • Romanian: “Delphi”
  • Romanian: “Delphoi”
  • Russian: “Дельфы”
  • Scots: “Delphi”
  • Serbian: “Delfi”
  • Serbian: “Делфи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Delfi”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Делфи”
  • Sicilian: “Delfi”
  • Sindhi: “ڊيلفي جو مندر”
  • Slovak: “Delfy”
  • Slovenian: “Delfi”
  • Spanish: “Delfos”
  • Spanish: “Delphi”
  • Spanish: “Sitio arqueológico de Delfos”
  • Swedish: “Delfi”
  • Swedish: “Delphi (fornlämning i Grekland, Grekiska fastlandet, lat 38,48, long 22,50)”
  • Swedish: “Delphi”
  • Tagalog: “Delphi”
  • Tamil: “டெல்பி”
  • Tamil: “தெல்பி”
  • Telugu: “డెల్ఫీ”
  • Thai: “Delphi”
  • Thai: “เดลฟี”
  • Thai: “เทวสถานอพอลโล”
  • Thai: “โหรแห่งเดลฟี”
  • Turkish: “Delfi”
  • Turkish: “Delphi”
  • Turkish: “Delphoi”
  • Ukrainian: “Дельфи”
  • Urdu: “ڈیلفی”
  • Uzbek: “Delfa”
  • Vietnamese: “Delphi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Delphi”
  • Welsh: “Delffi”
  • Welsh: “Delphi”
  • Western Armenian: “Տելֆի”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈیلفی”
  • Wu Chinese: “德尔斐”
  • Yiddish: “דעלפי”
  • Yue Chinese: “德爾菲”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Delphi”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.