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Official Unit:
7th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities

Figaleia (Prefecture of Ilia)

Telephone: +30 26240 22.529

 
 
Tickets
Full: €3, Reduced: €2
Free admission days
6 March (in memory of Melina Mercouri)
5 June (International Enviroment Day)
18 April (International Monuments Day)
18 May (International Museums Day)
The last weekend of September annually (European Heritage Days)
Reduced admission for:
Greek citizens and citizens of other Member - States of the European Union aged over 65 years old by showing their ID card or passport.
Persons possessing a free admission card
The accompanying parents on educational visits of elementary schools.
The escorting teachers of schools and institutions of elementary, middle school, high school, university and graduate level education during their visits
Free admission for:
Members of Societies and Associations of Friends of Museums and Archaeological Sites throughout Greece with the demonstration of certified membership card
Members of the ICOM-ICOMOS
Persons accompanying blind and disabled
Students of Higher Education Institutes and equivalent Schools from countries outside the EU by showing their student ID
The official guests of the Greek government, with the approval of the General Director of Antiquities.
University students and students at Technological Educational Institutes or equivalent schools of Member - States of the European Union and students at Schools of Tourist Guides, by showing their student ID
Young people, under the age of 18, after demonstrating the Identity Card or passport to confirm the age
 
  Open

8:00 - Sunset

 
  Suggestive Bibliography
Cockerell C., The Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius at Aegina and Apollo Epicurius at Bassai near Phigalia in Arcadia, London 1860
Κουρουνιώτης Κ., "Ανασκαφαί εν Κωτίλω", ΑΕ (1903), 151-188
Καββαδίας Π., "Ανασκαφαί περί τον εν Φιγαλεία ναόν του Επικουρίου Απόλλωνος", ΠΑΕ (1902) 23-27, (1903) 25, (1904) 16-21, (1905) 21-22, (1906) 54-55, (1907) 66, (1908) 65, (1910) 33, (1911) 29 κ. ε.
Κουρουνιώτης Κ., "Το εν Βάσσαις αρχαιότερον ιερόν του Απόλλωνος", ΑΕ (1910), 271-332
Ρωμαίος Κ., "Εκ του αρχαιοτέρου ναού της Φιγάλειας", ΑΕ (1933), 1-25
Γιαλούρης Ν., "Δοκιμαστική ανασκαφή εις τον Ναόν του Επικουρίου Απόλλωνος Βασσών", ΠΑΕ (1959), 155-159
Cooper F.A., The Temple of Apollo at Bassai: A Preliminary Study, New York 1978
Παπαχατζής Ν., Παυσανίου Ελλάδος περιήγησις: Αχαϊκά και Αρκαδικά, Αθήνα 1980, 361-371
Cooper F.A., Kelly N.J., The Temple of Apollo Bassitas: The Architecture 1996
Ο ναός του Επικουρίου Απόλλωνα, Περιήγηση στο χώρο και στο χρόνο, Αθήνα 2000
Αραπογιάννη Ξ., Ο ναός του Επικουρίου Απόλλωνος Βασσών, Αθήνα 2002
 
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See also
Other museums and archaeological sites in the same prefecture
Acropolis at Platiana
Agia Triada
Agora of Ancient Elis.
Alipheira
Archaeological Museum of Elis
Archaeological Museum of Olympia
Archaeological site at Olena
Elis
Kato Samiko
Lepreum