Pythagoreion

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UNESCO World Heritage Site
Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos
Name as inscribed on the World Heritage List

Type	Cultural
Criteria	ii, iii
Reference	595
UNESCO region	Europe and North America
Inscription history
Inscription	1992 (16th Session)

The Pythagoreion is an ancient fortified port in Samos, Greece. A nice and tranquil city with charter and yacht tourism as its main industry today. It has three ports with a new marina and a dock for ferrys and passenger boats to other islands like Pathmos and to mainland Greece and Turkey. It contains ancient Greek and Roman monuments and a famous ancient tunnel, the Tunnel of Eupalinos or Eupalinian aqueduct. Along with the Heraion of Samos, the Pythagoreion was registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992.

Pythagoras monument

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Attica	Acropolis of Athens Daphni Monastery

Aegean Islands	Delos Medieval city of Rhodes Monastery of Saint John the Theologian and the Cave of the Apocalypse Nea Moni of Chios Pythagoreion and Heraion of Samos

Coordinates: 37°42′4.35″N 26°52′7.62″E / 37.7012083°N 26.8687833°E / 37.7012083; 26.8687833

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