Tempé

Tempé, a famous mountain-gorge, some six miles long and 100 to 2000 paces broad, in the north-east of Thessaly, between the mountains of Olympus and Ossa. The river Peneus forces its way through the rocky ravine to the sea, and along its right bank runs the track, at some points hewn out of the rock. The vegetation is so rich and the scenery so grand that the name of Tempe became in ancient times a synonym for any beautiful valley, as the Tempe near Reate through which flowed the Velinus, and the Tempe in Sicily formed by the Helorus. Tempe was a favourite haunt of Apollo.