Calydon was a Greek city in ancient Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus, 7.5 Roman miles from the sea.
Its name is most famous today for the Calydonian boar that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age.
The Laphrion sanctuary plateau of Calydon with Varasova mountain on the background.
Ancient theater of Calydon
Aetolia is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania.
Ancient and modern Thermon, Aetolia
Ruins of the ancient Calydon
Dimitrios Makris (c. 1772 – 1841) a native of Aetolia was a Greek chief klepht, armatole, military commander and fighter of the 1821 Greek war of independence