Aigio

Aigio is a city and a former municipality in Achaea, West Greece, Greece. Since the 2011 nearby government reform, it's far part of the municipality Aigialeia, of which it's far the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 151.101 km². Aigio is a port town on the Gulf of Corinth, and takes its call from the historical metropolis of Aegium. Before the founding of the metropolis, the region had a Neolithic settlement.

The city of Aigion was founded at some point of Homeric instances and have become a part of the primary Achaean League on the grounds that around 800 BC. The city had numerous Olympic winners, inclusive of Xenophon, Ladas stadion race, Athenodorus stadion race, Straton pancration and wrestling. After the disaster of Helike, which changed into destroyed by way of an earthquake and buried by means of a tsunami in 373 BC, Aigion took the territory of the neighbouring metropolis.

The ruins of Helike now and again called "The Lost Atlantis"had been discovered in 2000 off the coast inside the Corinthian Gulf. Archeologists are excavating the web page. Aigio has a soccer stadium known as "Municipal Stadium of Aigion". It became constructed in 1951 and changed into ultimate renovated in 1999. For a few years Aigio lacked primary facilities for water sports inclusive of swimming or water polo. A new outside swimming pool become finished in January 2018.