Stadium
The Stadium at Olympia is an ancient stadium at the archaeological site of Olympia, Greece, located to the east of the sanctuary of Zeus. It was the location of many of the sporting events at the Ancient Olympic Games.Photo: Dwaipayanc, Public domain.
- Type: Ruins
- Description: ancient Olympic venue in Olympia, Greece
- Also known as: “Stadium at Olympia”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Olympia and Statue of Zeus at Olympia.
Olympia
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Work of art
Photo: Quatremère de Quincy, Public domain.
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was a giant seated figure, about 12.4 m tall, made by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC at the sanctuary of Olympia, Greece, and erected in the Temple of Zeus there. Statue of Zeus at Olympia is situated 320 metres southwest of Stadium.
Temple of Zeus
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Temple of Zeus was an ancient Greek temple in Olympia, Greece, dedicated to the god Zeus. The temple, built in the second quarter of the fifth century BC, was the very model of the fully developed classical Greek temple of the Doric order. Temple of Zeus is situated 320 metres southwest of Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ancient Olympia and Archaia Pisa.
Ancient Olympia
Town
Photo: Codas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Olympia, officially Archaia Olympia, is a small town in Elis on the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece, famous for the nearby archaeological site of the same name.
Archaia Pisa
Village
Ancient or Archaia Pisa, sometimes distinguished in Greek as Archaía Písa Ileías, is a modern village located 2.15 kilometers of Ancient or Archaia Olympia on the northwest corner of the Peloponnese in southern Greece.
Koskinas
Village
Koskinas is a village in the municipality of Olympia, Elis, Greece. It is 1.5 km northeast of Olympia.
Stadium
- Categories: Ancient Greek stadium, archaeological site, building, and historic site
- Location: Olympia, Elis, West Greece, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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Latitude
37.63927° or 37° 38′ 21″ northLongitude
21.63349° or 21° 38′ 1″ eastOpen location code
8G93JJQM+P9OpenStreetMap ID
way 146770974OpenStreetMap feature
building=ruinsOpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q4357227
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Thai—“Stadium” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ستاد أولمبيا”
- Chinese: “奧林匹亞體育場”
- Chinese: “田徑場(奧林匹亞)”
- Esperanto: “Stadiono en Olimpio”
- Finnish: “Stadion”
- French: “stade d’Olympie”
- French: “Stade”
- German: “Stadion in Olympia”
- German: “Stadion”
- Greek: “Αρχαίο στάδιο Ολυμπίας”
- Greek: “Στάδιο αρχαίας Ολυμπίας”
- Greek: “Στάδιο Αρχαίας Ολυμπίας”
- Greek: “Στάδιον”
- Hebrew: “אצטדיון באולימפיה”
- Interlingua: “Stadio a Olympia”
- Italian: “stadio di Olimpia”
- Italian: “Stadio di Olimpia”
- Italian: “stadio”
- Japanese: “オリンピアのスタジアム”
- Persian: “استادیوم المپیا”
- Polish: “Stadion w Olimpii”
- Russian: “Стадион в Олимпии”
- Russian: “стадион”
- Slovenian: “Stadion v Olimpiji”
- Spanish: “Estadio de Olimpia”
- Swedish: “Stadion”
- Thai: “สนามกีฬากรีฑาโอลิมเปีย”
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