Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceTemple of Olympian Zeus, also known as the Oplympeion, Amalias street is located, 500 meters southeast of the Acropolis and 700 meters south of Syntagma Square. Foundation belongs to a temple that was dedicated to the tyrant Pisistratus in 515 BC, but work was abandoned when Pisistratus's son, Hippias, was removed from the throne in 510 BC
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreecePort of Piraeus is Greece's largest port. It was built during the reign Temistocles, when the city walls were built (year d. 478 AD), and the town was built by architect Hippodamus. He quickly gained importance when Athens became a naval power.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceThe most important and beautiful temple in Athens called the "Holy Stone of Athens", initially dedicated to his patron, the goddess Athena, dominates the modern city center stone on the summit known as the Acropolis. The old myths, great religious festivals, ancient religions and some decisive events in the history of the city are all connected in this sacred place.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceTheater of Dionysus, built in a natural hollow in the south of the Acropolis, was the first theater in the world is built of stone and the birth of Greek tragedy.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceConstruction of the Temple of Poseidon, god of the sea, began around 500 BC, but the monument was never finished. Temple and its attractions were destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC Temple of Poseidon, which you can visit today was built on the ruins of another temple. At the same time it was built and the Temple of Athena, the goddess of the place where he was offered sanctuary.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceAcropolis means "upper town" and that because, in antiquity, for safety reasons and to be defended more easily, the city center was built on a ridge on a hill or the highest part of town. The word is of Greek origin, and most Greek cities (Corinth, Thebes, Argos, Athens) had one acropolis.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceNational Archaeological Museum hosts the most important artifacts from various locations in Greece. National Archaeological Museum in Athens is the largest museum in Greece and one of the largest museums in the world. Its collections include 20,000 exhibits offering a panorama of Greek civilization from the prehistoric era to the beginning of the late antique period.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceByzantine Museum was founded in 1914. Originally located on the ground floor of the Athens Academy, he was moved to Villa Ilissia, winter residence of the Duchess of Piacenza. From 1993 began the expansion of the building with 3 underground levels. The main building, one of the most important monuments in Athens, has two floors and a basement. The north is bordered by two towers with stairs. In general, the building is built in Tuscan Renaissance style with classical elements (horizontal lines dominate the towers bass) and romantic (arcade, which stands outside the building roof).
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceAtene ancient Agora was the center, the center of political, commercial, administrative and social justice, a religious center and Settlement.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceBenaki Museum is the oldest private museum in Greece and is a monument to Greek art and culture. Neoclassical building located at the crossroads Vasilissis Koubari Sofias and was built between 1867-1868 by Ioannis Peroglou merchant. Villa Charokopos, as known, was sold in 1910 by Emmanouil Benakis which according to his needs as home and family. Changes in input assumed a larger and a luxurious interior. Between 1929 and 1931, the house was changed again, adding a wing in the west.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceMuseum of Greek folk music is hosted Lassanis villa built in 1842 near the Agora and contains about 1,200 Greek popular musical instruments dating from the eighteenth century until today, the fruit of half a century of research and study Fivos Anoyanakis musicologist. Some of the tools that you can find in this museum are: bouzouki, mandolins, violins, clarinets, flutes, drums, citere, dulcimere, bagpipes.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceKerameikos is one of the most atmospheric archaeological sites in Athens, set in a quieter part of the city, northwest of the Ancient Agora. In antiquity, the area was linked with potters and ceramic workshops, but it also became Athens’ main cemetery. The site preserves sections of the city walls, the Dipylon Gate, the Sacred Gate, the old route toward Eleusis, the Street of the Tombs, funerary monuments and the small Kerameikos Museum, where grave stelai, statues, vases and burial objects are displayed. Kerameikos gives a different view of ancient Athens. Instead of temples and political buildings, the visitor finds roads, graves, family memorials and traces of the rituals that accompanied death and remembrance.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceThe Panathenaic Stadium, also known as Kallimarmaro, stands in central Athens and is one of Greece’s most recognisable sporting monuments. It was built on the site of an ancient stadium used for the Panathenaic Games, the festival dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its present marble form is closely tied to the 19th-century reconstruction carried out for the first modern Olympic Games, held in Athens in 1896. The stadium is striking for its white marble seating, long track, horseshoe shape and direct link with the history of sport. From the upper rows, the full curve of the arena becomes easy to read; from the track level, its scale feels more physical. It is a strong stop for travellers interested in Athens, the Olympic Games, architecture, photography and modern Greek history.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceThe National Garden of Athens lies in the very centre of the Greek capital, next to the Hellenic Parliament and Syntagma Square. It was created in the 19th century as a royal garden, under Queen Amalia, and remains one of the city’s most pleasant green spaces. Shaded paths, palms, tall trees, ponds, pergolas, busts, ancient fragments and the nearby Zappeion give it a character very different from the busy streets around it. The garden works well as a break between central Athens landmarks, especially in summer, when shade becomes valuable. It can be easily included in a route with Syntagma, the Zappeion, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Hadrian’s Arch and the Panathenaic Stadium.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceKaisariani Monastery lies on the slopes of Mount Hymettus, east of central Athens, in a green area that feels far removed from the busy city below. It is one of the most beautiful Byzantine monuments near the Greek capital, with a main church dating mainly from the 11th-12th centuries, an inner courtyard, monastic cells, stone walls and preserved frescoes inside. The place is closely connected with Orthodox monastic tradition, but also with the natural landscape of Hymettus, with pines, cypresses, walking paths and springs. The monastery works well as a short trip from Athens, especially for travellers interested in Byzantine art, religious architecture, quiet surroundings, photography and nature walks close to the city.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceThe Museum of Cycladic Art is located in central Athens, in the Kolonaki area, and is one of the best museums for understanding the early cultures of the Aegean. Its collection is best known for the marble Cycladic figurines made in the 3rd millennium BC, long before Classical Greece. Their simple bodies, almost abstract faces and clean proportions have fascinated modern artists and remain among the most recognisable images of prehistoric Aegean art. The museum also includes Cypriot antiquities, pottery, vessels, weapons, jewellery, funerary objects and displays connected with daily life in the ancient world. It is a strong stop for travellers interested in art, archaeology, pre-Classical Greece and museums that fit easily into a central Athens route.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceLycabettus Hill, known in Greek as Lykavittos, is the best-known viewpoint in Athens and one of the finest places to see the city from above. Rising to about 277 metres in the central part of Athens, it offers views over the Acropolis, the Panathenaic Stadium, the Parliament, the city’s neighbourhoods, Piraeus and the Saronic Gulf. Visitors can climb on foot along paths through pine trees and Mediterranean vegetation, or take the funicular from the Kolonaki area. At the top stand the white chapel of Agios Georgios, a small restaurant and several viewing points. The hill is especially popular at sunset, when the light falls across Athens and the Acropolis stands out within the cityscape.
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Athens Metropolitan Area, GreeceHadrian’s Library stands in central Athens, very close to Monastiraki and the Roman Agora. It was built in the 2nd century AD under Emperor Hadrian, who supported several major projects in the city. The complex had a large colonnaded courtyard, rooms for storing scrolls, reading areas, spaces for intellectual gatherings and decorative features with water and gardens. Today, visitors can see surviving walls, columns, architectural fragments and remains of later buildings that appeared inside the ancient enclosure. Hadrian’s Library fits easily into a walk through central Athens, especially together with Monastiraki, the Roman Agora, the Tower of the Winds and Plaka.
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