14 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Athens
14 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Acropolis
Athens 105 58
Every civilization that conquered Athens wanted a piece of this rock.
Acropolis Museum
39 Dionysiou tou Areopagitou, 3rd Municipal Community, Athens, 117 42, Greece
This museum was built to win an argument.
Anafiotika
Anafiotika, Athens 105 58
Tucked against the northeast face of the Acropolis, this tiny cluster of whitewashed houses looks like someone airlifted a Cycladic island village and dropped it in the middle of Athens.
Erechtheion
Acropolis, Athens 105 58
If the Parthenon is Athens' power statement, the Erechtheion is its mystery.
Hadrian's Arch
Leoforos Vasilissis Amalias, 2nd Municipal Community, Athens, 105 58, Greece
Two inscriptions.
Little Metropolis (Panagia Gorgoepikoos)
56 Mitropoleos, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 105 63, Greece
Dwarfed by the massive Athens Cathedral next door, this tiny church — just 7.
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
Dionysiou tou Areopagitou, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 117 42, Greece
A Roman billionaire built this theater as a monument to grief.
Panathenaic Stadium
35 Leoforos Vasileos Konstantinou, 2nd Municipal Community, Athens, 106 74, Greece
The only stadium in the world built entirely of marble, and it looks exactly like it sounds — blindingly white in the midday sun, 50,000 seats of Pentelic marble carved into a natural ravine between two hills.
Parthenon
Acropolis, Athens 105 58
The Parthenon was never really a temple in the way most people think.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
364 Leoforos Andrea Syngrou, Kallithea, 176 74, Greece
When a Greek shipping dynasty decides to give back, they don't do things by halves.
Stoa of Attalos
Ancient Agora, Athens 105 55
A fully reconstructed ancient Greek shopping mall stands in the middle of the Agora, and it works brilliantly as both a museum and a piece of experimental archaeology.
Temple of Hephaestus
24 Adrianou, 1st Municipal Community, Athens, 105 55, Greece
While the Parthenon gets all the postcards, this temple quietly holds a much more impressive record: it's the best-preserved ancient Greek temple in the world.
Temple of Olympian Zeus
Leoforos Vasilissis Olgas, 2nd Municipal Community, Athens, 116 36, Greece
It took 638 years to finish.
Tower of the Winds
Plaka, Athens, 105 55, Greece
Before smartphones, before clocks, before even sundials were common, this octagonal marble tower told Athenians the time, the wind direction, and the weather forecast — all at once.
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