Rising to a height of between 60 and 70 meters above the city, the rocky flat-topped hill of the Acropolis is 300 meters from east to west and 150 meters from north to south. Its first ...

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

Eleftheriou, an architect by training, is director of the Acropolis Restoration Service, where she oversees what could be considered the most daunting project in the history of archaeological ...

Rebecca Ann Hughes covers travel, culture and food in Europe. The Acropolis is consistently inundated with tourists, with as many as 23,000 visitors clogging up ... [+] the complex on some days.

The acropolis, awesome and aloof on its limestone mesa above hectic modern Athens, is so integral to the texts of our history books—and the subtexts of our imaginations—that it is one of those ...

Near the Acropolis, Philopappos Hill makes for a pleasant walk combining nature and history. The path goes up a gentle slop up to the Philopappos monument, offering uninterrupted views of the ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

Situated on the south slope of the Acropolis, the Herod Atticus Odeon was named after Tiberius Claudius Herod Atticus, a wealthy Athenian who sponsored the building of this ancient outdoor ...