The historic Church of Saints Theodoros, an emblematic 11th-century monument in the center of Athens, was officially ...

3200–1100 B.C.) that the rock became a fortified citadel with a palace. The first defensive wall atop the Acropolis was built in the thirteenth century B.C. by the Mycenaeans, a civilization ...

In 478 the walls erected around Athens enclosed an area of 3.5 square kilometers, including the Piraeus, or harbor district. The full population of the city was over 140,000, but only 40,000 of ...

Where art spills beyond gallery and museum walls into the city's most compelling bars and restaurants near them ...