Athens SIGHTSEEING - MUSEUMS

The history of Attica and its basin is the source of the unique monuments on the sacred rock of the Athens, which is crowned by the temple of Athena the Parthenon.

The love of the Athenians for the arts, for beauty in all things and above all for their city, expressed itself in dozens of other monuments that radiate from the Acropolis.

These are historical sites such as the Ancient Agora where the concept of democracy was born and came to maturity as a form of goverment and which contains many other noteworthy sites such as the stoa of Attalos.

The museum of the Agora has on display the objects found there as well as many other important exhibits.The Roman Agora with Hadrian's Library and the Tower of the winds ornament the nighborhood of Plaka.

The ancient Agora of Athens covers an area of 40 stremmata. It lies below the Acropolis south of the hill of the Areios Pagos and west of the hill of Agoraios Kolonos.

At the peak of Agoraios Kolonos hill is the best preserved temple of antiquity, the Theseio. The Theseio or the Temple of Hephaestus, is a peripteral temple, the same as the Parthenon. It was built with pentelic marble.It has 13 columns on its long side and 6 on its narrow. The feats of Heracles and Theseus are engraved in relief on its metopes.

The Columns of the Temple of Olympian Zeus rise up in one of the most beautiful settings in Athens. This area, because of its proximity to the Iliasos river, has been inhabited since prehistoric times.

According to Pausanias, Athenian tradition said the site was connected to the myth of the creation of the human race.

The temple that was built here was one of the largest in the Corinthian Style. Its foundations were laid by Peisistratos in the 6th century B.C. It was completed in the 2nd century A.D. by Hadrian.

And all of the above are just a small preview of what a traveller can see and admire in the modern Greece.