An important commercial center in the northeastern Peloponnese, it was famed for its 4th-century-BC temple of Asclepius.

• 伯罗奔尼撒半岛东北部的沿海重要商业中心，以西元前4世纪修建阿斯克勒庇俄斯神庙（temple of Asclepius）而著名。