Mariolata is a settlement of the Regional Unit of Fokida, Region of Central Greece and is part of the Municipality of Delphi. It is built at the foot of Parnassos, at an altitude of 390 meters. The area has been inhabited since ancient times, the city was called Boeon or Voion and was part of the Doric Quadropolis, and we find it in Thucydides and Diodorus Sicilianus. The name of the city may have been given by the Dorians from the name Boeos or Boeos who was the son of Hercules.
The city was destroyed in the 3rd BC. century by Philip. Later we meet her in Herodotus and Pausanias under the name Charadra from the river Charadro, which flows into Kifissos.
Herodotus says that Charadra was destroyed along with Erochos [present-day Polydrosos] by Xerxes in 480 BC. as he descended towards Attica after the victory at Thermopylae. We don’t know exactly when it got the name Mariolata. In the period of the Turkish occupation it is referred to as Mariolata.An old junction of ancient routes that embraces the main rural road shortly before Gravia. Go up the clock tower-aqueduct for a spectacular panoramic view. (60’ from Delphi, 5’ from Gravia)