Tourism IN Athens

It is still on me to do my duty of presenting The Tour: Acropolis. It took some time, I know. ANd I will not say peans in the honour of it-it is magnificent, it is incredibly this-and-that, but there were others saying it better than me. Read Zbigniew Herbert, in some his poems and prose works it got the best description, in my humble opinion.

We actually started the year visiting Acropolis. It was a good choice, not too many people around. In general, winter is probably the best time for visiting Athens like tourist. I can imagine that climbing this hill may be hard work in the heats of summer here.

Here The Building. It IS amazing, maybe more because of the position than the building itself.

The most important place was not Parthenon, but this smaller building...Erechtheion. But this you can find in any guide book, I am not ciccerone! Caryatids, these beautiful maidens holding the portico, are really impressive, here in the top of the hill.

View to the south-notice the sea in the horizon-is magnificent.

Lykavittos Hill with the City below is one of the most frequently made pictures in Athens, I am sure, but I also had to do it!

Northern direction, more-less towards our regions...

Acropolis is before all fortified part of the city, in Parthenon was kept money from the taxes etc. Here fortification of the hill is well visible, it is impressive.
Below, in the park near the Ancient Agora you see the white shape of the temple of Haphaestus.

It is well preserved (renovated?) and here U can see how such temples looked when complete. I missed very much the possibility to enter at least one of these temples, just for the feeling of all these masses of stone around.

But with these millions of tourists wandering around it would not be possible. It is really incredible how much money Greece earns on each pile of stone they dig out!