This is the beautifully located stadium at Nemea, where the Nemean games were held. Winners at these games, sacred to Zeus, were given wild celery wreathes for their heads. Mostly, there weren’t seats; people just sat on the slopes, except for one section for dignitaries. However, the Nemean stadium (NB, a stade was a unit of measure; a distance) had a very well preserved entry tunnel for the athletes. At Olympia, which had a similar tunnel, only one arch section survives. The starting lines, to the left, are still visible at Nemean, as well as their toe holds of the ‘starting blocks’.