The mountain range of Aigaleo is one of the most prominent geographical features of the landscape to the west of Athens, separating the latter from the Eleusinian plain. It is, essentially, an extension of Parnes starting from Ano Liosia and running southwards to the Salamis strait. Mount Aigaleo, about 5 km wide and 20 km long, has never had adequate spring waters and, thus, its vegetation has been rather thin, mainly consisting of pine trees. Aigaleo features two peaks, as it consists of two large mountainous massifs connected by means of a narrow neck; the latter was crossed by the Sacred Way, in the vicinity of the famous Dafni monastery. The range’s eastern section, i.e. that from Dafni to Liosia and Dema, was known in antiquity as “Corydallus”; the western part of the mountain range, namely the section from Dafni to the Scaramangas coast, was called “Aigaleos”. Aigaleo is generally considered as the place chosen by the Persian king Xerxes to watch the sea battle of Salamis.