Damalá

Damala, known in antiquity as Troezen, lies on the Argolid peninsula across the Saronic Gulf from Athens. Before the battle of Salamis in 480 BC, Athenians sent women and children here for safety. The ancient city also honoured Hippolytus, to whom girls dedicated a lock of hair before marriage. In the Middle Ages Damala became the seat of a Frankish barony; centuries later, during the Greek War of Independence, the Third National Assembly met at Troezen in 1827 and adopted a new constitution.