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The vale of Tempe.

View of Mount Olympus from the vale of Tempe.

The vale of Tempi.

The tomb of Hassan Baba in the vale of Tempi, copper engraving from edition by Ed. Dodwell.

Pineios and the vale of Tempi, by Louis Dupré.

Mounts Olympus and Kissavos and the vale of Tempe.

Vale of Tempe.

Mount Olympus. Vale of Tempe.

View of the Vale of Tempi and Pineios river.

The Vale of Tempi.

Vale of Tempe.

View of Pineios river in the Vale of Tempe in Thessaly.

View of Gonnoi, ancient city north of Pineios river, towards the western entrance to the Vale of Tempe.

View of Dodoni, Thessaloniki and Vale of Tempi (imaginary representations) framed by mythological scenes. From: Jacobus Gronovius, Thesaurus Graecarum Antiquitatum, 1699.

Landscape at the Vale of Tempi between Mount Olympus and Mount Kissavos.

Sepulchre of Hassan Baba, at the entrance of the Vale of Tempe.

Landscape at the Vale of Tempi,Thessaly.

Landscape near the ancient site of Gonnoi, at the western end of the Vale of Tempi. Due to its strong fortress, the location was also called Kondylos or Gonnokondylos.

Inscription etched on the rock at the Vale of Tempi, first century BCE: “L. CASSIUS LONGINUS PROCONS TEMPE MUNIVIT” that is, proconsul L. Cassius Longinus built a road or fortifications at Tempi. The rock bearing the inscription was destroyed during the construction of the national highway in 1959.