# Roots Earth in Delphi: audio stories about 40 places Canonical: https://rootsearth.com/cities/delphi Published: 16 September 2026 Roots Earth has audio stories about 40 places in Delphi, Greece, in Europe. The Delphi stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Delphi, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people. The 40 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026. ## The 40 places in Delphi with audio stories In the order the app shows them. 1. Temple of Apollo 2. Archaeological Site of Delphi 3. Delphi Archaeological Museum 4. Ancient Theatre of Delphi 5. Tholos of Delphi 6. Temple of Athena Pronaia 7. Stadium of Delphi 8. Castalian Spring 9. Charioteer of Delphi 10. Athenian Treasury 11. Sphinx of Naxos 12. Siphnian Treasury 13. Omphalos of Delphi 14. Stoa of the Athenians 15. Sibyl Rock 16. Altar of the Chians 17. Polygonal Wall of Delphi 18. Monument of Aemilius Paullus 19. Ex Voto of Daochos 20. Dancers of Delphi 21. Kleobis and Biton 22. Lesche of the Knidians 23. Gymnasium at Delphi 24. Delphic Hymns 25. Delphi Inscription 26. Oracle of the Pythia 27. Phaedriades 28. Modern Delphi Town 29. Arachova 30. Chrisso Village 31. Itea Waterfront 32. Kirra Beach 33. Amfissa and the Charmaina Quarter 34. Galaxidi 35. Desfina 36. Parnassos Ski Centre 37. Pleistos Gorge 38. Crissa Acropolis and Sea of Olives 39. Corycian Cave 40. Mount Parnassus ## Is there an audio guide for Temple of Apollo? Yes. Temple of Apollo has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. It is place 1 of the 40 Delphi places in the app, at 38.48222, 22.50111. Every one of the other 39 places in the list above has the same two stories. Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself. ## How to use Roots Earth in Delphi Open Roots Earth and choose Delphi. The city has its own map of places with all 40 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order. You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. --- **In full** All 40 places in Delphi, in the app's order, with their coordinates. ## All 40 places in Delphi, with coordinates Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print. ### 1. Temple of Apollo - Coordinates: 38.48222, 22.50111 - In one line: The ritual heart of the Delphic oracle, where the Pythia delivered Apollo's prophecies. The Doric temple visible today dates to the 4th century BCE, rising on terraced foundations above the Sacred Way on Mount Parnassus. ### 2. Archaeological Site of Delphi - Coordinates: 38.4823, 22.5013 - In one line: A vast sanctuary terraced into Mount Parnassus, home to the ancient Greek world's most revered oracle. Its Sacred Way, treasuries, temple, theatre and stadium earned it UNESCO World Heritage status in 1987 as the symbolic centre of the earth. ### 3. Delphi Archaeological Museum - Coordinates: 38.48013, 22.49993 - In one line: One of Greece's major museums, founded in 1903 to house finds from the sanctuary. Its fourteen rooms hold the bronze Charioteer, the Sphinx of Naxos, the Siphnian friezes and the omphalos, tracing Delphic art from Archaic to Roman times. ### 4. Ancient Theatre of Delphi - Coordinates: 38.48268, 22.50096 - In one line: A 4th-century BCE stone theatre set above the Temple of Apollo, seating around 5,000 across 35 rows. Restored in the 2nd century BCE by Eumenes the Second of Pergamon, it staged the musical and dramatic contests of the Pythian Games. ### 5. Tholos of Delphi - Coordinates: 38.48016, 22.5079 - In one line: A circular marble temple in the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia, built around 380 to 370 BCE by Theodoros of Phokaia. Three of its twenty Doric columns were re-erected in 1938, making the Tholos the most photographed image of Delphi, though its purpose remains unknown. ### 6. Temple of Athena Pronaia - Coordinates: 38.48017, 22.50792 - In one line: A Doric temple to Athena guarding the eastern approach to Delphi, the first sanctuary pilgrims met on foot. Rebuilt three times between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE, its surviving columns still line a cliffside terrace beside the famous Tholos. ### 7. Stadium of Delphi - Coordinates: 38.48389, 22.49954 - In one line: The best-preserved ancient stadium in Greece, set at the highest point of Delphi above the theatre and temple. Around 178 metres long, it hosted the athletic contests of the Pythian Games and held roughly 6,500 spectators, with starting grooves still cut into its stone sill. ### 8. Castalian Spring - Coordinates: 38.48306, 22.50556 - In one line: The sacred spring in the ravine between the Phaedriades cliffs where pilgrims, athletes and the Pythia washed before approaching the oracle. Rock-cut basins and niches remain, fed by water still flowing down Mount Parnassus. ### 9. Charioteer of Delphi - Coordinates: 38.48013, 22.49993 - In one line: A life-size bronze figure from around 470 BCE, dedicated by Polyzalos of Gela to mark a Pythian chariot victory. One of the best-preserved Classical bronzes, it survived buried beneath earthquake debris until its discovery in 1896. ### 10. Athenian Treasury - Coordinates: 38.4818, 22.5014 - In one line: Its thirty sculpted metopes show the deeds of Heracles and Theseus. Reconstructed on the Sacred Way between 1903 and 1906. ### 11. Sphinx of Naxos - Coordinates: 38.48013, 22.49993 - In one line: An Archaic marble sphinx with a woman's head, eagle's wings and a lion's body, dedicated by the island of Naxos around 560 BCE. It once crowned a column over twelve metres tall and now stands in the Delphi Archaeological Museum. ### 12. Siphnian Treasury - Coordinates: 38.4816, 22.5014 - In one line: An opulent Ionic treasury built around 525 BCE from the gold and silver wealth of the island of Siphnos. Famous for its caryatid maidens and a continuous sculpted frieze, including a vivid battle of gods and giants now in the Delphi museum. ### 13. Omphalos of Delphi - Coordinates: 38.48169, 22.5013 - In one line: The carved marble navel-stone that marked Delphi as the centre of the world, where Zeus's two eagles were said to meet. The surviving example, decorated with a net pattern of woolen bands, stands in the Delphi Archaeological Museum. ### 14. Stoa of the Athenians - Coordinates: 38.48213, 22.50187 - In one line: An open Ionic colonnade built by Athens around 470 BCE against the polygonal wall below the Temple of Apollo. Its seven slender columns sheltered war trophies captured from the Persians, recorded in a surviving dedication inscription on the stylobate. ### 15. Sibyl Rock - Coordinates: 38.4818, 22.50132 - In one line: A rough outcrop of rock beside the Sacred Way at Delphi where, according to ancient tradition, the first prophetess Herophile chanted her oracles long before the Pythia presided in Apollo's temple. ### 16. Altar of the Chians - Coordinates: 38.48215, 22.50128 - In one line: The great altar of Apollo at Delphi, gifted by the island of Chios and faced in dark bluish marble. Sacrifices burned here before the temple, and an inscription granted the Chians the privilege of consulting the oracle first. ### 17. Polygonal Wall of Delphi - Coordinates: 38.48198, 22.50145 - In one line: A 6th-century-BCE retaining wall built without mortar from irregular interlocking stones to support the terrace of the Temple of Apollo. Its smooth face is covered with hundreds of later inscriptions recording the freeing of slaves. ### 18. Monument of Aemilius Paullus - Coordinates: 38.48238, 22.50166 - In one line: A tall marble pillar near the Temple of Apollo, raised around 167 BCE for the Roman general Aemilius Paullus after he crushed Macedon at Pydna. He seized a base meant for the defeated king and topped it with his own equestrian statue. ### 19. Ex Voto of Daochos - Coordinates: 38.48246, 22.50158 - In one line: A long marble base that once held nine statues, dedicated around 336 BCE by Daochos of Thessaly. It displayed Apollo alongside eight generations of his family, including the celebrated athlete Agias, in a public monument to dynastic pride. ### 20. Dancers of Delphi - Coordinates: 38.48013, 22.49993 - In one line: Three dancing women carved in marble around 330 BCE, poised on a tall column sculpted as acanthus leaves. Now displayed in the Delphi museum, the figures once crowned a column some 13 metres high that probably carried a bronze tripod. ### 21. Kleobis and Biton - Coordinates: 38.48013, 22.49993 - In one line: A pair of massive Archaic marble youths carved around 580 BCE by Polymedes of Argos, now in the Delphi museum. They embody the legend of two brothers rewarded with a peaceful death for their devotion to their mother. ### 22. Lesche of the Knidians - Coordinates: 38.4831, 22.5011 - In one line: A clubhouse and meeting hall dedicated by the people of Knidos in the mid-5th century BCE, famous for two vast wall paintings by Polygnotos showing the Fall of Troy and Odysseus in the Underworld. ### 23. Gymnasium at Delphi - Coordinates: 38.48085, 22.5064 - In one line: An athletic complex built around 330 BCE on two terraces below the sanctuary, with a long covered running track, a wrestling courtyard, and bathing pools fed by the Castalian Spring, where athletes trained for the Pythian Games. ### 24. Delphic Hymns - Coordinates: 38.4818, 22.5014 - In one line: Two ancient Greek hymns to Apollo, carved with their musical notation on the Athenian Treasury wall in the 2nd century BCE and rediscovered in 1893. They count among the earliest substantially complete pieces of notated music to survive. ### 25. Delphi Inscription - Coordinates: 38.48013, 22.49993 - In one line: A set of nine stone fragments from a letter by the Roman emperor Claudius, dated to 52 CE. By naming the proconsul Gallio, it gives scholars one of the few fixed dates for the life of the apostle Paul. ### 26. Oracle of the Pythia - Coordinates: 38.48222, 22.50111 - In one line: The high priestess of Apollo who delivered the prophecies of Delphi from a chamber beneath the temple. For more than a thousand years, kings and cities sought her famously ambiguous answers before war, colonisation, and law. ### 27. Phaedriades - Coordinates: 38.48694, 22.50417 - In one line: The pair of limestone cliffs rising roughly 700 metres above Delphi on Mount Parnassus. Their name means the shining ones, for the dazzling glare they cast at noon. The sacred Castalian Spring flows from the cleft between them. ### 28. Modern Delphi Town - Coordinates: 38.48, 22.4932 - In one line: A small mountain town in Phocis, just west of the ancient site, built in 1893 when the village of Kastri was moved so French archaeologists could dig. Today it lives largely on tourism, perched above the Pleistos valley. ### 29. Arachova - Coordinates: 38.48333, 22.58333 - In one line: A stone-built mountain town on the southern slope of Parnassus, around 970 metres up and 8 kilometres east of Delphi. Famous for its black wine, formaela cheese, woven rugs and a winter crowd drawn by the nearby ski slopes. ### 30. Chrisso Village - Coordinates: 38.46667, 22.46667 - In one line: A quiet village in the foothills of Parnassus, just 2 kilometres from Delphi, overlooking the great olive plain. It stands beside ancient Crissa, a once-powerful city named in Homer and destroyed in the First Sacred War. ### 31. Itea Waterfront - Coordinates: 38.43333, 22.425 - In one line: The seafront of Itea, a 19th-century port town on the Gulf of Corinth and the nearest harbour to Delphi. A long palm-lined promenade, a modern marina and pebble beaches face the water where pilgrims once landed for the oracle. ### 32. Kirra Beach - Coordinates: 38.4325, 22.4505 - In one line: A pebbled seaside village just east of Itea, on the Gulf of Corinth. Once Kirra was the ancient harbour of Delphi, destroyed in the First Sacred War; today it draws swimmers, campers and water-sports visitors to its shore. ### 33. Amfissa and the Charmaina Quarter - Coordinates: 38.53333, 22.36667 - In one line: The historic capital of Phocis, set below a Frankish castle once called Salona, about 20 kilometres from Delphi. Its old Charmaina quarter kept the town's tanning and bell-making crafts alive among streams and workshops below the citadel. ### 34. Galaxidi - Coordinates: 38.37667, 22.38361 - In one line: A handsome seafaring town on a double harbour of the Gulf of Corinth, about 15 kilometres from Delphi. Its grand captains' mansions recall a 19th-century shipping fortune, and its Clean Monday flour war draws crowds each spring. ### 35. Desfina - Coordinates: 38.41667, 22.53333 - In one line: A highland farming town on a plateau around 680 metres up, between Delphi and the Corinthian Gulf. Known for its wine, olives, cheese and honey, it remembers Bishop Isaias, the revolutionary fighter executed here in 1821. ### 36. Parnassos Ski Centre - Coordinates: 38.55, 22.59 - In one line: Greece's largest ski centre, spread across the Kelaria and Fterolakka slopes of Mount Parnassus above Delphi. With runs reaching 2,250 metres, it draws Athenian crowds each winter and keeps the nearby town of Arachova alive in the cold months. ### 37. Pleistos Gorge - Coordinates: 38.4282, 22.4535 - In one line: The deep valley below Delphi, carved by the Pleistos river between Mount Parnassus and Mount Kirphis. Mostly dry on the surface and known locally as Xeropotamos, it cradles the vast olive grove, the sea of olives, that runs down to the Gulf of Corinth. ### 38. Crissa Acropolis and Sea of Olives - Coordinates: 38.4712, 22.469 - In one line: The ruined acropolis of ancient Crissa, perched on a spur of Mount Parnassus above the modern village of Chrisso. Once the power that controlled Delphi, it overlooks the vast Crissaean plain, the sea of olives running down to the Gulf of Corinth. ### 39. Corycian Cave - Coordinates: 38.515, 22.52056 - In one line: A great limestone cavern high on Mount Parnassus above Delphi, at around 1,250 metres. ### 40. Mount Parnassus - Coordinates: 38.53583, 22.62417 - In one line: The sacred limestone mountain of central Greece, rising to 2,457 metres at the Liakoura peak. Home in myth to Apollo, the Muses and Dionysus, it cradles Delphi on its southern slopes and shelters a national park and a ski centre. ## Roots Earth in short Roots Earth has audio stories about 5,665 places in 130 cities, 25 countries and 6 regions, written by local people. - No account - Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection - Audio stories in English and German in every city, and in Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian in 126 of the 130 cities Roots Earth for Android is available on Google Play: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rootsearth.app). ## More from Roots Earth - [Europe in the Roots Earth catalogue](https://rootsearth.com/cities#europe): every city in Europe with its number of places and its languages. - [What Roots Earth is](https://rootsearth.com/app): the app in one page, how it works and what is in it. - [Questions travellers ask](https://rootsearth.com/faq): the cities, the languages, the account, listening without a connection. - [The 7 languages](https://rootsearth.com/languages): the seven languages with their codes and how many cities each one covers. - [Athens](https://rootsearth.com/cities/athens): 52 places in Greece with audio stories. - [Thessaloniki](https://rootsearth.com/cities/thessaloniki): 44 places in Greece with audio stories. - [Rhodes](https://rootsearth.com/cities/rhodes): 40 places in Greece with audio stories. - [Nafplio](https://rootsearth.com/cities/nafplio): 40 places in Greece with audio stories. 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