Athens - Touring

Hard to say which one is dressed with the oddest clothes

Everybody needs their picture taken with the Parliament Guards

Changing of the Guard occurs every hour

Every Male has to serve in the Armed Forces.  This is a high honor.

The Panathenaic Stadium originally built in 329 BC

Stay in the Game!

Reconstructed in 1894-1896 with new marble.  Olympic Symbol over the stadium

Opening ceremonies in 1896 at the first modern Olympic Games

Plenty of seating for Olympic events

Commemorative Plaques

Home of the benefactor of the Olympic Stadium and the first Olympic Village.

Zappionmegaron - Evangelos Zappas offered the money for the Mansion in 1856

Completed in 1879

Bath ruins found when building the subway

Magpies in the park

Hadrian's Gate 131 AD.  Hadrian City within the gate, Athens outside the gate.

Tour by train?

View of the Acropolis from the grounds of the Temple of Olympian Zeus

Temple of Zeus

Acropolis View

15 standing and 1 fallen Column

Impressive in size and vista

The Acropolis and the Temple of Zeus

The back door to the Acropolis

Acropolis visitors looking at the view

A Byzantine Church in the Plaka