Archaeological Park of Dion

The Archaeological Park of Dion is the most important archaeological site at Mount Olympus in Greece, located in Dion [1]. In the area comprised by the Archaeological Park of Dion, sanctuaries were found from the Hellenistic and Roman periods [1]. The park has an area of 150 hectares, of which nearly 50 hectares belong to the urban area and 50 hectares to the sanctuaries [1]. In the former urban area residential buildings, a market square, public buildings, churches, bathhouses, shops, workshops and toilets have been found [1]. In the Hellenistic period, Dion became the religious center of Macedonia [1]. Alexander the Great sacrificed to Zeus in Dion before he began his campaign against the Persians [1]. The most recent of the sanctuaries in Dion is the sanctuary of Isis [1]. It was erected in the second century AD on the site of a former fertility sanctuary [1].