It is located 10 km SE from Nafplio, built on a plain with citrus. Irrigated by the water source Anavalos. It has 1,279 inhabitants.
During the Mycenaean period or Assini connected by road to Mycenae and was its port. Homer mentions the “list of new (ship) between the towns had sent an army to Troy during the Trojan war.
The city was conquered in 740 BC (or 700) of the slow, despite the heroic resistance of the inhabitants, who eventually left. The Argives destroyed it completely, except the temple of Apollo Pythaea. The people settled there in Messinia and built new homonymous city.
During the Hellenistic period the city of Assini Argolida rebuilt. Surrounding the wall was constructed. In 1922 the excavations of the Swedish Archaeological School in Athens revealed that there were remains of fortifications B millennium and the Third Century BC The relics were discovered in the ancient citadel, the highest part of the peninsula. Also, the slopes of a hill west discovered a cemetery of Mycenaean and other geometric period. In graves found many interesting items. But there are ruins from the Hellenistic and the Roman period. The devastation of the ancient state argoliki gives wonderfully poet George Seferis in his poem “The King of Assini.
Sights:
- The ancient citadel of Asini rising on top of a steep hill near the sea, about a km before the Tolo. With the busy life since the dawn of the Bronze Age, as indicated by findings of-excavations reached a peak in Mycenaean, PG and Geometric times. The ancient city mentioned by Homer in the Iliad, and was inspired by Nobel laureate poet George Seferis one of the aisthantikotera poems. Today traces of prehistoric settlement, parts of the imposing structure polygonal enclosure of the citadel, and Hellenistic towers that keep their medieval repairs. On a hill opposite the citadel excavated Mycenaean, Hellenistic, Roman tombs.
- The churches, of the Transfiguration, 16th century., Northwest of the Assini and the Prophet Elias, at the top of the hill near the village, with remarkable frescoes.