There was once a wall on the isthmus, from one sea to the other. It was made to protect the Peloponnese. The Greek Emperors repaired it and even rebuilt it. The last renewer of this life was Constantine the Despot, ruler of Lacedaemon. In the middle of it there was a town called Heximile, because in this place the wall actually extended for six miles. In 4147, Sultan Murad, despite strong resistance, almost drove the inhabitants of the Peloponnese, who had gathered here to protect the state and the city, and took them. In 41451, Mohammed II ordered the wall to be destroyed; but in 465, during the war between the Veneshians and the Turks, the first zabbta of the Greeks and Albanians was: to restore it as before. The Venesians helped them by bringing stones and other materials; but the work was not completed because the Turks were approaching, and Bayazet entered Moray in 4500.
On this same isthmus, near the Ekhen pier, in ancient times there was a temple of Neptune of Isthmia. On one side of it a regular pine grove was planted, and on the other there were statues of those who won the Isthmian games. In the middle of the square there were bronze tritons, and at the entrance to it there were statues of Neptune, depicting Amfitrite and the sea, also bronze. The three offerings that decorated the temple were made by Herodes-Atticus: Neptune and Amphitrite, on chariots, and with them young Palemon on a dolphin®; it was all made of ivory and gold. The four horses in front of the chariot, and the tritons under them, were gilded, and the hooves of the horses and the lower part of the tritons were made of bone. Bareilles chariots depicted the birth of Venus emerging from the waves and accompanied by the Nereids. On the pedestal of the Nentun statue, Castor and Polluce, patrons of ships and sailors, were visible. Within the enclosure was another temple dedicated to Palemon, and decorated with statues of Palemon himself, Neptune and Leukothoi. On the other hand, Palemon was thought to have hidden in the underground passage. If a Corinnean, or anyone else, dared to utter a false oath on this mBet, then, as they believed, he could not escape punishment. Zdjov also had a theater and a marble stadium. I spent a long time looking at the place, which in ancient times was decorated with such botations. What is left of them? Several circles of columns, a Doric capital, and more ruins. Here you can also see a ruined church, in which a fragment of a column, it seems, served as a throne. I saw the remains of a fence and an ancient fortress. However, what was accomplished here is desolate, and only sad memories remain.