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, 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, 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, GreeceAtene ancient Agora was the center, the center of political, commercial, administrative and social justice, a religious center and Settlement.
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