Guide to Greece
Must See Greece
- Ancient Delphi
- Knossos
- Meteora
- National Archaeological Museum
- Northeastern Aegean Islands
- Peloponnese
- Santorini (Thira)
- Saronic Gulf Islands
- The Acropolis of Lindos
- The Acropolis
- Vergina
Places in Greece
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Spectacularly perched atop a 116m (383ft)-high rock is the Acropolis. It's about a 10-minute climb to the well-signposted entrance gate. Once inside, a flight of steps leads to a large square. On the left is a warship hewn out of the rock by the sculptor Pythocretes. A statue of Hagesandros, priest of Poseidon, originally stood on the deck of the ship.
At the top of the steps ahead, you enter the Acropolis by a vaulted corridor. At the other end, turn sharp left through an enclosed room to reach a row of storerooms on the right. The stairway on the right leads to the remains of a 20-columned Hellenistic stoa (200 BC). The Byzantine Church of Agios Ioannis is to the right of this stairway.
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- views, archaeological site, ruin