Landmarks in Athens

The Parthenon (; ; ) is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of classical Greek art, and the Parthenon is considered an enduring symbol of ancient Greece, Western civilisation, and democracy.

ancient citadel above the city of Athens

ancient philosophical, research and educative center, founded by Plato in Athens

thumb|The Areopagus as viewed from the Acropolis. thumb|Engraved plaque containing Apostle Paul's [[Areopagus sermon.]]

stadium in Athens, Greece

national library in Athens, Greece

ancient Greek temple in Athens

ancient Greek temple in Athens

museum in Athens, Greece

The Zappeion (, ) is a large, palatial building next to the National Gardens of Athens in the heart of Athens, Greece. It is generally used for meetings and ceremonies, both official and private, and is one of the city's most renowned modern landmarks.

ancient theater in the Acropolis of Athens

ancient theater in Athens Acropolis

The Pnyx (; ; , Pnyka) is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC (Fifth-century Athens), the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx to host their popular assemblies, thus making the hill one of the earliest and most important sites in the creation of democracy.

Roman library in Athens

Kerameikos (, ) also known by its Latinized form Ceramicus, is an area of Athens, Greece, located to the northwest of the Acropolis, which includes an extensive area both within and outside the ancient city walls, on both sides of the Dipylon Gate and by the banks of the Eridanos River. It was the potters' quarter of the city, from which the English word "ceramic" is derived, and was also the site of an important cemetery and numerous funerary sculptures erected along the Sacred Way, a road from Athens to Eleusis.

ancient stoa in Athens

ancient Greek choragic monument in Athens

ancient Greek mausoleum in Muses hill in Athens

public park in Athens, Greece

building of the Hellenic Parliament, formerly a royal palace

Roman arch in Athens

building in Athens and official residence of the president of Greece

temple in the Ancient Agora of Athens

temple complex in ancient Athens

monument in ancient Athens

The Strategeion, a trapezoidal chamber located in the Ancient Agora of Athens, Greece, is known as the meeting room of the ten Strategoi of ancient Athens.

preserved building in Athens, Greece

neoclassical building in Athens, Greece

ancient monument in Athens

archaeological site

choregic monument on Acropolis south slope

memorial to Greece's war dead, below the Parliament building

ancient well in Athens Acropolis

ancient gateway of the Roman Agora in Athens

caves in the rock of the Acropolis of Athens