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Highlights include Acropolis of Athens, Parthenon, Acropolis Museum, Erechtheion, Propylaea, The South Slope and the Theatre of Dionysus.
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154 of 154- Parthenon: story on the “Acropolis and Two Agoras: How Athens Changed” route
The breach at the center of the building reveals the outcome of a victory that did not help Venice hold Athens.
- Erechtheion: story on the “Acropolis and Two Agoras: How Athens Changed” route
The porch will show how the removal of one original changed the fate of all six statues.
- The South Slope and the Theatre of Dionysus: story on the “Acropolis and Two Agoras: How Athens Changed” route
Here the route begins with the moment when the theatrical competition became the business of the whole city.
- Temple of Hephaestus: story on the “Acropolis and Two Agoras: How Athens Changed” route
An error in the name will connect the ancient temple with the choice of a new capital and today’s map of Athens.
- Areopagus: story on the “Acropolis and Two Agoras: How Athens Changed” route
The mythical trial explains why it was not enough for the city to deliver a verdict—it also had to reconcile the winners and the defeated.
- Hadrian's Arch: story on the “State and Olympic Athens” route
The inscriptions on the two sides will help explain why the city's benefactor was placed beside its legendary founder.
- Panathenaic Stadium: story on the “State and Olympic Athens” route
The finale will bring the story of the revived Games down to one race and a man whom no one considered a favorite.
- Syntagma Square: story on the “State and Olympic Athens” route
This is where the story begins of how a demand made of the state became the name of the main square.
- Parliament and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier: story on the “State and Olympic Athens” route
Here, the former royal residence connects with the story of a disputed memorial and the parliament building.
- Monastiraki Square: story on the “Old Athens: Plaka, Anafiotika, and Monastiraki” route
The finale will explain how the railway directed a steady flow of passengers toward the old bazaar.
- Benizelos Mansion: story on the “Old Athens: Plaka, Anafiotika, and Monastiraki” route
The urban estate connects the everyday life of a wealthy family with the long return of a lost manuscript.
- Church of St. Nicholas Rangavas: story on the “Old Athens: Plaka, Anafiotika, and Monastiraki” route
A small preserved bell will link the life of the parish to the day the city learned that the Acropolis of Athens had been handed over.
- Monument of Lysicrates: story on the “Old Athens: Plaka, Anafiotika, and Monastiraki” route
Here you will understand the cost of winning an Athenian choral contest and whose names the city preserved in stone.
- Stoa of Attalos: story on the “Acropolis and Two Agoras: How Athens Changed” route
Here, an authentic inscription makes it possible to distinguish an ancient royal gift from a modern reconstruction.
- Zappeion: story on the “State and Olympic Athens” route
Here the Olympic idea takes material form—a exhibition hall, funded and bequeathed by a man from far away.
- Street of the Tripods: story on the “Old Athens: Plaka, Anafiotika, and Monastiraki” route
A single surviving base here becomes a trace of the public competition that once occupied an entire street.