Acropolis of Athens
The rock that Western architecture keeps returning to. Fortified since the Bronze Age, the Acropolis was rebuilt in marble after the Persians burned i…
16 documented citadels across Greece, each with real history, a location, and cited sources. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.
The rock that Western architecture keeps returning to. Fortified since the Bronze Age, the Acropolis was rebuilt in marble after the Persians burned i…
The Acropolis of Axou Mylopotamou is a layered citadel in Crete's Mylopotamos Municipality, occupied from Archaic through Classical, Hellenistic, Roma…
On Monte Smith, three kilometres southwest of modern Rhodes town, the ancient upper town commands the island's west coast. The Acropolis of Rhodes too…
Perched above the east coast of Laconia near modern Palaia Monemvasia, the Acropolis of Epidauros Limera guards a site inhabited across an extraordina…
The acropolis of Arkesini occupies a rocky hill above the sea on the northwest side of Amorgos, north of the village of Vroutsi. It served as a defens…
High on its hill in Laconia, the Acropolis of Geronthrai, known today as Geraki, is a partially preserved citadel whose story stretches across an extr…
The Acropolis of Halieis crowns the southern tip of the Argolid peninsula, a fortified citadel overlooking Porto Heli bay. Its story stretches across …
High on its hilltop near Andritsaina-Krestena in the Peloponnese, the Platiana acropolis commands wide views over the surrounding landscape. The citad…
The fortifications of Mycenae rise on a cliff in the Argolid, built with the massive Cyclopean masonry that later Greeks could scarcely believe was hu…
The Acropolis of Phlious rises above the valley of the river Asopos, the fortified heart of the ancient city of Phliasia. Its walls and terraces were …
The hill north of the modern village of Thisvi in Boeotia carries the remains of Paleokastro, the upper acropolis of the ancient city. Homer names Thi…
High above the streets of modern Thiva lies the Cadmeia, the fortified acropolis of ancient Thebes, named for Cadmus, the city's legendary founder. Wi…
The Acropolis of Dodona rises in the Dodoni Municipality of Epirus, a citadel whose occupation reaches back to the Archaic period and continues throug…
Lindos is one of the oldest fortified places in Greece, with roots that may stretch back to the Trojan War. Founded by Dorians under King Tlepolemus a…
Sparta's ruins are famously disappointing, and that is the point. Thucydides predicted it: if Sparta were deserted, he wrote, later generations would …
Acrocorinth is the great rock that looms over the plain where ancient Corinth once stood, a natural acropolis used as a fortress from antiquity. Its f…
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