<Location> Nikopolis, Epeiros, Greece
Stadion (Stadium) and Gymnasion (Gymnasium) situated along the Preveza-Smyrtoula road. Architectural structure does not remain much, but its form is clearly recognisable.
The athlelic contests of the Nea Aktia Festival - brought from Aktion to here by Augustus - were celebrated here.
Reference
- Pavlos Chrysostomou, Frangiska Kefallontiou, Nikopolis, Athens/ Ministry of Culture Archaeological Receipts Fund 2001, pp. 51-52.
- Christopher Mee & Antony Spawforth, Greece: An Oxford Archaeological Guide, Oxford/ OUP 2001.
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