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Acropolis
Still not feeling well, Donna carried the camera bag for me.
We first walked over to the Acropolis entrance and got entry tickets. The entry is timed, so we had an hour and a half before we could enter. We went over our drop-off point from yesterday a couple blocks away and saw Hadrian’s Arch.
And then got tickets to see the Temple of Olympian Zeus. It is in a big park behind Hadrian’s Arch.
The Acropolis is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You enter the southeast corner and walk along the south side and up to the entrance to the top on the west side. We passed the Theater of Dionysus along the way.
The Parthenon is along the south side of the hilltop.
The Erechtheion is where the caryatids from the museum yesterday came from. These are replicas.
From the Acropolis hill looking north you can see the Temple of Hephaestus. We’ll visit tomorrow.
We walked out the north entrance and down the switchbacks on the hillside.
Roman Agora of Athens is near the tower of the winds that we passed by yesterday.
The National Archeological Museum has quite a bit in it.
This bronze statue from 340-330 BC is either Perseus holding the head of Medusa or Paris holding the Golden Apple.
The original Antikythera Mechanism is in the museum.
Outside we heard this parrot making a fuss.
