{"id":14662,"date":"2026-05-26T20:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/?p=14662"},"modified":"2026-10-16T06:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:44:23","slug":"temple-de-poseidon-et-couchers-de-soleil-sur-la-mer-grece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/greece\/athens\/temple-of-poseidon-and-sunsets-over-the-sea-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Temple de Pos\u00e9idon et couchers de soleil sur la mer, Gr\u00e8ce"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Temple of Poseidon stands at the highest point of Cape Sounion, the southern tip of Attica, about 70 km south-east of Athens. The Doric marble temple was built around 444\u2013440 BC on the ruins of an earlier temple destroyed by the Persians, and 15 of its original 34 columns still stand. Sailors used it as a landmark for centuries and called the cape Kavokolones, the Cape of Columns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to myth, King Aegeus of Athens threw himself into the sea from these cliffs when he saw his son Theseus\u2019s ship returning from Crete with a black sail, and the Aegean was named after him. Homer mentions Sounion as a sacred place in the Odyssey. A name carved into the base of one column is attributed to Lord Byron, who visited Sounion in 1810\u201311. In antiquity the cape also guarded the sea route to Piraeus and the silver mines of Lavrio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Informations pour les visiteurs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A ticket costs \u20ac20 (reduced \u20ac10) and can also be booked online at the official Hellenic Heritage ticket store. The site is open every day from 09:30 until sunset all year, with last entry 20 minutes before closing, and is closed on 1 January, 25 March, 1 May, Easter Sunday and 25\u201326 December. Entry is free on 6 March, 18 April, 18 May, the last weekend of September, 28 October, and the first and third Sundays of each month from November to March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Le coucher du soleil est le moment le plus pris\u00e9, et en \u00e9t\u00e9 le site est bond\u00e9 une heure ou plus \u00e0 l\u2019avance : arrivez t\u00f4t pour faire le tour du temple dans une lumi\u00e8re douce. Le sommet est peu ombrag\u00e9, et la baie au pied du cap compte des plages et des tavernes de poisson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

En voiture, la route c\u00f4ti\u00e8re de la Riviera ath\u00e9nienne demande environ 1 h 30 depuis le centre d\u2019Ath\u00e8nes. Les bus KTEL Attikis partent de Pedion tou Areos et mettent environ deux heures par la c\u00f4te. De nombreuses excursions d\u2019une demi-journ\u00e9e au coucher du soleil sont aussi propos\u00e9es depuis Ath\u00e8nes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Le temple de Pos\u00e9idon au cap Sounion, \u00e0 70 km d\u2019Ath\u00e8nes, est ouvert de 9 h 30 au coucher du soleil ; le billet co\u00fbte 20 \u20ac et les couchers de soleil y sont c\u00e9l\u00e8bres.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1108,977,985,1027,981],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athens","category-architecture","category-churches","category-greece","category-sights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17132,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662\/revisions\/17132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotonmap.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}