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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.
Visible to the southwest of the Acropolis, is the Temple of Olympian Zeus....
Three glass pyramids, constructed for the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, mark this historical site....
Near the Temple of Hippolytus lies the mythical sanctuary of the Muses, or Ardalidae....
Prospering over the centuries, the area had been continuously inhabited since Neolithic times,...
After their definitive victory over the Persians in the Battle of Plataea, the Athenians...