The area of Bassae was accessed by a mountain road, seven kilometres long, which began at Phigaleia and reached the temple of Apollo from the southwest. This was probably the so-called 'sacred road' and most certainly the one that Pausanias took in the second century AD. Traces of it are still visible in the village of Perivolia, three kilometres to the northwest of Phigaleia, and all the way to the temple where, according to Pausanias (8, 41, 10), there was a spring. Building material from this ...