Athens, Greece
History in Athens
The layers you can actually stand in — Athens's built and excavated history.
The Acropolis
The Parthenon, the Erechtheion and the Propylaea on one rock, best at opening or in the last hour.
Anafiotika
A Cycladic village built inside Athens by island masons in the 1840s, and still lived in.
The Acropolis Museum, third floor
The Parthenon frieze laid out at actual scale and orientation, with plaster casts where the British Museum holds the originals — the gaps are the argument.
This page exists because Athens has at least 3 of them in the Atlas. Destinations with fewer do not have a page for this, on purpose — a facet with one or two entries is a heading with a list under it that you could have read in full on the page you came from. Back to Athens.