Exploring an Ancient City on the Greek Island of Delos
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Exploring the ruins of Delos, one of the most important cities of the ancient world, on a Greek island right next to Mykonos.
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Delos is a holy island where Apollo and Artemis were born, after sunset no one can stay there, also no one else was born or died on the island. Welcome to my country 💙🇬🇷
Apollo-Sun, god of daylight, and his twin sister Artemis-Moon, goddess of night light
@@ladyblabla3611 yes in greek it's λυκόφως - likofos. between light and darkness
How did christianity manage to outshine polytheism?
What a magic, truly wondrous land
@@profeturulz8373 this happened with persecutions, massacres and disasters for whomever dared to declare a Greek, all of them buried the ancient sanctuaries of my country, for example in ancient Olympia there was a temple of zues with a statue of him reaching 20 meters, it was full of precious stones, theodosios leveled them, all this has nothing to do with the love of Jesus Christ
Delos, the best reason to go to Mykonos. Such rich history. Thanks for the video.
Gabriel is the new Odysseus. I have always wanted to see this holy island. Thanks.
Delos is my real reason for visiting Mykonos - several times in the last two. years. The first time I went alone like you. Not sure why they don't have more signs. The second time I hired a private guide, an archeologist who had lived in those houses you saw. Fascinating. There are many layers of history in Delos. Myth is that Apollo and his sister Artemis were born there. Because it was so sacred, no one was allowed to claim it as their space. People were born and died (and buried) on the nearby island of Rhenia.
forgive me for 'nerding out'...
@@pamelacoy6464 what ? this gloryfying of bliss doesnt excist here, we all volunteered to see and hear this and learn. PLZ continue and share your experience if you dont mind 🙏
I watch you every week for the last eight years and absolutely love your hair and shaving face on this magical Greek journey. Enjoy Dyanna.
Gabe, your use of your camera is amazingly professionalism. You're an inspiration to many of your long time followers. I'm included of course! 😄
Thank you young man for taking us along,Greece is definitely a beautiful country.
This Greek island is definitely going on my bucket list. Really enjoy your videos when you travel to Greece.
Thank you, safe travels.
Thank you for showing Delos with a lot of archeological sites. This video is a lecture on the Greek Civilzation.
Hi Gabriel, you are living my dream life! I wish I could join you. I live in Australia but Greece is my dream home! I just turned 50 and have been dreaming of Greece most of my life. I've never had the privilege of travel so THANK YOU for sharing your adventures in such detail.🙏ο Θεός να σε ευλογεί (God Bless You). Mary from 'Down Under.'
Just amazing being able to walk freely around those ruins, just imaging what life would’ve been like there!
Imagine the Roman baths of Izmir 🇹🇷👍
Wow this island and all the ancient ruins must have blown you away Gabriel!
He's seen it before, many times
No. This is his first time visiting the sacred holy island of Delos.@@gerry9306
25:45 ΣΠΗΛΛΙΟΝ ΚΥΝΘΟΥ(SPELLION KUNTHOU) CYNTHOS CAVE the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis!
the second is a derivative of latin called french
Another gem in the Mediterranean...so fascinating to explore. Thanks Gabriel 🙏
Gabriel you are a tireless exploler! A great video as usual!! Greek islands all gems with different ancient history! We are obliged for showing my country to the world!
Delos is Nature gives us so much.I haveno words to express Delos beauty.such excellent incredible destination.Thank you .
You showvus so many beatiful places in Greece ❤ Gabriel thank you 😀
The weather looks epic. Enjoying the Greek Islands ❤
Incredible island. I still remember one of your trips to the Greek islands which was very special. Your short trip to Gavdos island
When I was 14 My mum took me to Delos in the 90s, she went on the tour and me and my brother were left to roam the island and entertain ourselves. Wonderful! Still love greek myths now
The guided tour of Delos was incredible!! They knew so much about the ancient lifestyle of the city and the port. I would love to go back again and do a self guided tour the way you did too.!! Thanks for another great video!
Another Awesome Adventure Thank You Gabriel 🙂❤👍You look 20 years younger without the Beard 🙂👍
I'm pleased you finally got to visit Delos. The modern looking building is the museum, where the original lion sculptures are on display..
Gabe looks like a Ancient Greek Traveler! Epic!!! 🇬🇷
Yes, everyone including their mother used that word a few years ago. Epic 😂
Thank you Gabriel 😊 always love the Greece videos ❤😎⛅☀️🌊
Loved the video! Cant wait for more greek places!
What an incredible ancient site ! Its now on my list of places to visit, thanks Gabe 👍
What's on your list?
So glad you went to Delos! I have been there twice. Home of lizards, spiders, and cats. Great vista from the hill.
I enjoyed seeing the amazing preserved ruins and the information provided by Gabriel. Some parts of beginning was repetitive of Gabe's other Greek videos but the rest of the video was new and interesting.
Hellenic ferry rides are best, Υ Ελλάδα, μου αρέσει πολύ 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🥰. Thank you, Gabe, for Delos video and, yes, looking 30 years younger now. At least 😉👊👏. Thank you for your work 🙏
Bring back my memories of Delos
Thanks Gabriel.
When Hera learned that Leto was pregnant by Zeus, she became jealous and forbade her to give birth on land and in any place under the sun. When Leto was about to give birth, a small island suddenly appeared in the sea (Zeus put his hand), Delos (which means "Declared" = the island that suddenly appeared), where she managed to give birth first to Artemis and then to Apollo.
Wonderful! Thanks so much Gabe, your videos are always so revealing and interesting!
Love, love all your video content. Thank you so much for sharing your travels! Your new beardless look is very appealing, continue with that look💕🌺
The archeological museum on Delos is one of the best.
True
De los is fascinating, greatly enjoyed and appreciated this video
If there is a morning and afternoon boat, I would recommend catching the morning boat and doing an organised tour, you don't have enough time to wander around in your own time the rest of the island if you come back on the morning boat, so stay on the island and come back on the afternoon boat. Tour guides use radios to communicate with the group, you hear what they say through a headset
Hi Gabriel, a lot of symbolism around this is an extremely important island the doors and columns are things you would see in a courthouse or capital building symbols of the U.S. democracy system Washington D.C. Jefferson and Lincoln Memorial. Even the anchor resembles the U.S. Navy pendent you see seaman wear. A small island with an incredible amount of history that is trying to piece together and introduce more of it and preserve it for future generations to experience.
Nice view of Delos ❤
Great video amazing island.
Thanks Gabriel! One of your best videos. I really enjoy your tours through the Greek islands. 😮😊
Thanks a lot, appreciate it. ✌️
16:00 Don't think we'll see this on any tour. Thank you for taking us there. Lots of interesting comments here.
what a fantastic place!!!! Thank You so much for the video!!!
Looking forward to watching this one
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@@ErvuJukl Looks like my comment was flagged
@@kostassarris4782 Yes Costas. 🇹🇷👍
Hi Costiz 🇲🇰
@@gerry9306Zdravo
The world owes you big , for this video Gabriel
We owe you Kristi
Cats are guardians or protectors of sacred sites in Greece ! 😉 Btw that hill on Delos the highest point on the island is called K i n t h o s (Κύνθος).
I don't have the possibility to travel to Delos , so this video is amazing!
It's legedary heritage for the world
You finally made it to Delos. Phenomenal. Xx. The museum on site is great. You will just have to go back
Loved this ❤
Αγάπη από Ελλάδα ❤❤
Big difference from my tour of Swlos in 2006. Those Signs with info in English were not there in 2006. Great video!!!
great video
Hi Gabriel.
Because the twin gods Artemis and Apollo were born on this island, they named it Delos. Also the Cyclades were named so because they are around the holy island of Delos. Cyclades means circular.
I see, good to know.
Imagine the island as it used to be ❤
Yes. It's so easy to imagine it in all its glory. Truly magnificent
Cute cat at the end
Been there, not enough time for a visit!
where you are having breakfast is where the final shot in Bourne Identity was filmed
No way, I need to watch it again I guess.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos ruclips.net/video/s8SiJDBcsVk/видео.html
Cool. I don't recognize the scene. Either I haven't seen that movie yet or I watched it before I'd been to Mykonos so I didn't recognize it. I get those movies mixed up as far as the titles.
Thanks Gabriel! Ancient Greck Worshiped unknown gods as Apostle Paul wrote in N. Testament.
Delos THE birthplace of/cradle of the banking system as we know it today (European Central Bank)
Delos citizens believed that every compliant ancient Greek state/business, no matter what industry, jurisdiction or background, should have unrestricted access to secure, institutional-grade banking and asset facilities.
Those ancient services are now transferred to the island nearby (Mykonos) in the form of an overhyped expensive tourist destination with numerous luxurious establishments
Interesting fact!
So fun. Wow. I want to go.
Historic to the nth degree!
Trapped in those human rat lanes in Mykonos looked like my idea of a living nightmare. Top marks for running off the boat ahead. for us. Can't beat the stark haunting beauty of ancient civilisations.
Very interesting video
Young Gabe 😂😂😂😂❤
I HAVE NEVER VISITED DELOS, I WILL ONE DAY. THANKS FOR TRANSPORTING ME THERE , THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC. SALUDOS
Impressive history 🙏😍♥️
53:26 Is that a real lion? 😍
Heraion is also on the island of Samos, there's a whole town named after it surrounded by ancient ruins including Efpalinio Orygma, an ancient Greek aqueduct and possibly the most amazing of all the ancient Greek ruins at least in my opinion.
You look so much younger without the beard!
Πανέμορφη η Δήλος...
Looks like you've gone back in time it looks incredibly like medusa's gonna come round the corner and the gods Hercules
Delos would have made an excellent Tomb Raider game setting. You play and walk around the island in one go. Then, you visit the place and learn from the guided tour without needing to climb each upturned stone and altar. Nice effort though!
One of my favorite places
nice!
You hear so many different languages during the walk through mikanos .
beautiful
Nice again ! 😊❤🇧🇦
I see the clock rewinding 😅 hopefully we will get to witness a wedding too🤞🤪 apart from grandeur narratives from various archaeological sites.
“Gabriel’s gig fat Greek Wedding.”
We can dream 😴
You seriously look 20 years younger!
I bet anything with writing is now in a museum in Britain France Germany or Venice
SPECTACULAR! ❤🇬🇷
Delos in Antiquity was what Mt. Athos is for Greece nowadays.
Did you feel a different kind of energy on that island Gabe?
Definitely.
@@GabrielTravelerVideos it was a sacred place for a reason
I was getting the negative vibes man
Beautiful white buildings, love it, too many people though crammed in walk ways, guess you would get used to it, but dayum...
The mosaics in Delos are some of finest of Hellenistic Greece !
Izmir mosaic better 🇹🇷
@@ErvuJukl definitely. Those weren't destroyed by the Turks.
@@xristinaxristina766 🇹🇷
@ErvuJukl who created those mosaics in Smyrni? All those ancient theaters, temples and so on in Asia Minor?
Your forefathers who were later forced to become yeni tsari.
Have a dna test.
@@xristinaxristina766 I'm sure that the results will show Oghuz and Lezgin primarily. 🇹🇷
The History of Delos is inextricably linked to its Mythology, since it was considered the birthplace of Apollo, son of Zeus, and Artemis, and, therefore, a sacred place.
Even its geographical position was defined in mythological terms, because before it became Delos (=known) there had been a rock called Ortygia that floated here and there, and so its position was Adelos (=Unknown).
In Greek, the use of letter A at the beggining of an existing word, gives the oposite meaning of that word. Example: Theos (= God) -> Atheos (= Godless)
It was Poseidon who anchored Delos in its special position, at the mathematical center of the Aegean and at the center of the Cyclades circle: Almost equidistant from mainland Greece to the northwest and the islands of Chios and Rhodes to the east, Crete to the south and the Peloponnese to the west.
Its geographical position attracted the interest of the ancient Greeks, as did other places with the same geometrically important position according to their complex mathematical calculations, such as e.g. Delphi
Probably places with particularly intense magnetic radiation, more noticeable in the then pristine magnetic environment of the earth and by the people of the time, who had developed other, inaccessible to us rational senses.
Given the position of the island, the creation of these myths was only a matter of time.
And just then Myth meets History, because the geographical position of Delos did indeed make it rich as Apollo's mother, Leto, had promised.
What Leto had failed to foresee was the calamities and disasters and slavery and hundreds of victims that this very wealth would bring,
to such an extent that Delos was deserted
and the brightest island in the world
was never inhabited again for two millennia!
It is Fenomenal!! Thanks a lot for the story
The warm weather is upon us. Here in the southern Mediterranean coast of Turkey is hot. My home in California is hot, too. Boy, Gabe your new look has taken years off you. 🙂
Been there in 2009, was Amazing
30:04 You'd be tempted to think it's recent but this type of drywall masonry should last quite well. I am amazed that even the exposed plaster on the wall is still there (30:29) so, if that has managed to survive, the wall itself would. Don't forget that, if this house has been excavated (which by all signs it seems to have been), then these walls have been exposed to the elements for at least the last sixty years. Pretty good plaster they used two thousand years ago: this must have been a luxurious dwelling.
Hi Pozantu, I like plaster also 😊🇹🇷👍
This made me think of the movie "My Life in Ruins"... one of my favs! 💙🤍💙
At 38.53 its theatre of Delou. The oldest theatre of ancient Greece.
He should go to Izmir. Better 🇹🇷👍😊
I've been to Izmir. I really enjoyed
26:20 It's a sign in four languages - top is Greek (ΣΠΗΛΑΙΟΝ ΚΥΝΘΟΥ), underneath French (GROTTE DU CYNTHE), then, I guess, English (CYNTHUS GROTTO) and the last I cannot make out. My guesses is that it would be either Italian or German but without being able to make out the writing it is quite impossible to say. I'd guess this is an old modern sign that is rather weathered but definitely not ancient.
Based on the languages shown on the sign at 29:03 I'd have to revise the above and deduce that the fourth language would be German. That would also make sense given that the major archaeological schools/expeditions in Greece have been French, British/American and German.
❤hi from texas❤
Howdy.
That dude was giving Gabriel Traveler travel advice 🤣
Rent a car on Santorini, got it. 😁
Gabe is an OG traveler. He invented GHRT mode. This mode is often used by Baldr and Barefoot Vlogger
Empty. No other tourists. Long video. I like it
You finally here
That stone writing was in Greek, French, English and something else, might have been German. It read 'Cynthus Grotto' in English..the Cave of Cynthus. lol. Probably a sign from the very early stages of tourism late in the 19th or early in the 20th century.
I see, that explains it.
Δήλος. Delos island, where Greek mythology and cats meet
Τέλειο ❤
Cleaning up for the lady,excelent looking good.
Gabriel, I have a question about that little cat. Since nobody lives on Delos, how did the poor little animal found it's way there? And who feeds it? It looked so skinny.
there are a couple of douzens living there, working on the sites and the museum, so I guess it survives
Zeus would be proud!