We visited the site of Olympia.  The green landscape of Olympia is between the two rivers of Alpheios and Kladeos (In mid summer is looked pretty brown to me).  In ancient times, it was full of plane trees and wild olives.  It was only natural that man should decide to build houses there at the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C.  The first settlers knew nothing of Zeus.  Tradition has it that the earliest cult was that of Kronos.  This god, father of Zeus, was worshipped on the imposing hill that dominates the northern side of the sanctuary.  It appears that the cult of Zeus dates from the decent of the western Greek tribes into the Peloponnes.

First we took a visit around the museum and took a look at the pediments of the temple of Zeus.  Reconstruction of the west side of the temple of Zeus.