Designed by architects Ictinus and Callicrates under the artistic supervision of the sculptor Phidias. Features the Porch of the Maidens (Caryatids) balancing delicate ionic beauty against Doric severity.
Constructed by Bernard Tschumi with Michael Photiadis. Houses over 4,000 objects discovered on the rock, punctuated by glass floors looking directly onto the subterranean Byzantine neighborhood.
The civic crucible of Athenian direct democracy. Features the reconstructed two-story Hellenistic Stoa of Attalos museum and the fully intact peripteral Temple of Hephaestus resting atop Agoraios Kolonos hill.
Excavated by Ernst Ziller and restored by Anastasios Metaxas for the 1896 Olympic Games. 50,000 capacity seating tiered in pristine Pentelic marble. Includes the vaulted underground vaulted tunnel for athletes.
Folklore tells that Athena dropped this limestone boulder while carrying stone for the Acropolis. Today, the whitewashed 19th-century chapel of St. George watches over the capital’s most breathtaking sunset perspective.
A quiet sanctuary sheltering 7,000 trees, turtle ponds, and ancient mosaic pavements. Adjoins the Zappeion Megaron, designed by Theophil Hansen, which served as the first Olympic Village in modern history.