The Royal (Ancient Sicyon) located about 9 km south of Kiato at the end of a small winding road, on a small green plateau at an altitude of 140 meters. It has a population of about 1,000 residents, many of whom are businessmen and officials, and others involved in agriculture.The central, stone, Byzantine Church of the Holy Trinity, built in the 12th century.West of the village is the archaeological site of important monuments. Of particular importance is the majestic Theater, the largest in Greece, which hosted the rich work of cultural institutions in the region, as well as brick and very well preserved Roman baths, which now houses the renovated museum. They also uncovered the foundations of the parliament of the Hellenistic Sicyon, a spacious square building with four rows of columns inside of a Lodge, a church and high school, called "the close", father of Aratou, built around 280 p . X. and is divided into two levels, with scales of communication between them. Northwest of the theater is the ancient stadium, approximately 207 meters. All these testify to the richness, the importance and glory of ancient Sicyon.
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The rise of the King became the core of Sicyon was the Hellenistic advantageous for a city of the era: chomatovouno on top of which formed a spacious plateau with steep and smooth surface everywhere. The present village only occupies the southeast corner of the hill. At any point of the plateau, though standing up, he sees, like a balcony, the fertile plain of Asopos as Kiato and the eastern Gulf of Corinth as the Acrocorinth and the Isthmus.North of the Royal Within the gardens is situated the picturesque church of St. Nicholas Byzantine period.
