Monitoring Diolkos - 3oct2010 The platform

The platform is thought to be an annex to Diolkos, on which ships were hauled out of the sea. It was visible decades before the excavation of Diolkos; Fowler mentions it in 1932, and he says it extended for about forty meters alongside the Canal. A greek newspaper article (of 1956) mentions it was already known to the Canal people in 1939 and that it had been partly destroyed by the American Company which had undertaken cleaning the Canal after the 2nd World War. More recently, Werner photographed it and made detailed drawings of it:
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5072445&l=0f79d309c9&id=660439101 It is mysteriously absent from many official documents. Today it is reduced to shreds!!!
Diolkos international petition: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/870/477/005/

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• Δίολκος
• Αρχαίος Δίολκος
• Ισθμός
• Κόρινθος
• Μνημεία
• Ancient Diolkos
• Corinth
• Diolco Antico
• Greek Heritage
• Monuments