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The Poseidon Sanctuary was built on a cliff in 490 BC. e., in the year of the Marathon, and destroyed in 480 BC. e., in the year Thermopylae and the ruin of Attica. It is known that it was a Doric peripter (6 by 13 columns). The classical temple of Poseidon, whose ruins are still preserved, was built by 440 BC. e. and was valid until at least the 1st century AD. The architecture of the temple (also the Doric peripter) is attributed to the creator of the sanctuary of Hephaestus in Athens and Nemesis in Rammount. The dimensions of the colonnade are 13.47 by 31.12 meters. The columns are sixteen, according to the archaic, and not twenty, as is usual in the classics. Nine columns of the peristyle of the southern facade, two from the northern facade and one of the vestibule survived to our time.