Olympia Golden Beach is approximately 25 km far from Ilida (or Elis). Elis was one of the most important and interesting centres of Peloponnese in antiquity. The city reached the peak of its prosperity in the Roman period. To this period belong the most of its buildings. It was to Elis that the athletes came to train before the Olympic Games. Elis organized the contests and it was the capital of the Eleans. The excavations have shown that the building is dated from the Late Hellenistic to Roman period.