Athens

The ancient citadel of Athens crowned by the Parthenon, the 5th-century BC temple dedicated to the goddess Athena.

A modern museum at the foot of the Acropolis housing the caryatids of the Erechtheion and other treasures from the sacred rock.

The oldest neighborhood of Athens, with narrow neoclassical lanes, tavernas and ruins nestling beneath the Acropolis.

The commercial and civic heart of ancient Athens, dominated by the Temple of Hephaestus, the best-preserved Greek temple of its era.

Greece's largest archaeological museum, holding masterpieces such as the Antikythera mechanism and bronze Zeus of Artemision.

The only stadium in the world built entirely of marble, host of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.