À l'ombre de l'Acropole et de ses temples antiques, le quartier de Plaka, à flanc de colline, dégage une atmosphère de village, avec ses ruelles pavées étroites bordées de petites boutiques vendant bijoux, vêtements et céramiques locales. Les terrasses des cafés et les tavernes familiales restent ouvertes jusque tard dans la nuit, et le Cinéma Paris projette des classiques en plein air. Non loin de là, les maisons blanchies à la chaux du quartier d'Anafiotika confèrent à cette petite enclave une atmosphère d'île grecque.

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a war memorial located in Syntagma Square in Athens, in front of the Old Royal Palace. It is a cenotaph dedicated to the Greek soldiers killed during war. It was sculpted between 1930 and 1932 by sculptor Fokion Rok. The tomb is guarded by the Evzones of the Presidential Guard

This was the city’s market area under Roman rule, and it occupied a much larger area than the current site borders. You can see a lot from outside the fence, but it's worth going in for a closer look at the well-preserved Gate of Athena Archegetis, the propylaeum (entrance gate) to the market, as well as an Ottoman mosque and the ingenious and beautiful Tower of the Winds, on the east side of the site.

The Tower of the Winds, also known by other names, is an octagonal Pentelic marble tower in the Roman Agora in Athens, named after the eight large reliefs of wind gods around its top.

The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation , popularly known as the Metropolis or Mitropoli (Greek: Μητρόπολη, romanized: Mitrόpoli), is the cathedral church of the Archbishopric of Athens and all of Greece.

Syntagma Square is the central square of Athens, Greece. The square is named after the Constitution that Otto, the first King of Greece, was obliged to grant after a popular and military uprising on 3 September 1843. It is located in front of the 19th-century Old Royal Palace, housing the Greek Parliament since 1934

Le Stade panathénaïque, ou Kallimarmaro, est un stade polyvalent situé à Athènes, en Grèce. L'un des principaux sites historiques d'Athènes, c'est le seul stade au monde entièrement construit en marbre.

The Arch of Hadrian, most commonly known in Greek as Hadrian's Gate, is a monumental gateway resembling—in some respects—a Roman triumphal arch. It spanned an ancient road from the center of Athens, Greece, to the complex of structures on the eastern side of the city that included the Temple of Olympian Zeus