Mount Penteli is one of Attica’s renowned ranges, famous for the marble extracted from its quarries, which was used to build the Acropolis.
With its exquisite yellowish-amber tint, this white marble shines with a golden hue under Attica’s sunlight, adding to the Acropolis’s magical aura.
The Plutonian Cave was thought to be tied to worship of Pluto, god of the underworld....
Findings are displayed in elegant showcases inside the metro station near the exits....
A small, newly discovered monument, honoring Themistocles....
Visible to the southwest of the Acropolis, is the Temple of Olympian Zeus....
Described in detail by the Roman traveller Pausanias, the ancient city and harbour of Salamis...
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, or the Irodeion as it is called today, was built on the...