Orpheus, son of the muse Calliope, was devastated by the death of his wife Euridice. With his weeping lyre he achieved to move the King and Queen of the dead, Hades, and Persephone, and won himself a chance to claim the blossom of his heart back from the Kingdom of Silence.
To do so, he had to cross the Acheron River, the watery border between Life and Death, the Gate to the Underworld.
At the point where Acheron River narrows between green-clad steep high cliffs that seem to be forming an enormous gate through which the water of the river rushes fiercely; you have reached “The Gate to the Underworld”.
