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The Ancient Agora of Athens is one of the most important archaeological sites in the city, and at the same time it serves as an idyllic "green zone" within Athens' historic center. The Agora occupies a level area northwest of the holy rock of the Acropolis, and is bordered by the Areopagus to the south and the hill of Kolonos Agoraios to the west. The nearby hills of the Muses, the Nymphs, and the Pnyx rise to the southwest1. The Eridanos River, which has its headwaters on Mt. Lycabettus and flows into the Kephisos, crosses the northern part of the Agora. Its riverbed, now...

The Archaeological Museum of Rhodes is housed in the medieval Great Hospital built by the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in the 15th century. The origins of the Order lay in Crusader Palestine, where the Knights protected pilgrims and looked after those who fell ill in their hospitals. In Rhodes the Hospitallers continued this vocation and their first hospital there opened shortly after their conquest of the island in 1309. [...] (απόσπασμα από το βιβλίο)

[...] Η λειτουργικότητα των χώρων του αρχοντικού Σβαρτς, η αρχιτεκτονική και η ζωγραφική του αποτελούν ένα αξιόλογο σύνολο, που ζωντανεύει μια πτυχή της κοινωνίας του 18ου αι., μιας ιστορικής περιόδου με έντονες ανακατάξεις σε όλα τα επίπεδα.

The Acropolis hill, as its Greek name (which means "upper" or "higher city") suggests, occupies a prominent position in the city of Athens and the basin of Attica. It rises to a height of 156 m. above sea level and has strong natural defenses, and springs of water in its lower slopes. The earliest traces of human presence have been discovered on the north and south slopes and date back to the Neolithic period (5500-3200 BC). [...] In the 6th c. BC, political figures such as Solon, the tyrant Peisistratos and his sons encouraged building and artistic activity in the city a...

At the southeast foot of Mt. Olympus, set on a hill beside the sea and dominating the shortest route between Macedonia and Thessaly, there rises the castle of Platamonas, that is, the walled medieval settlement of Platamonas. The castle, one of the most beautiful and best preserved in Greece, "moves us with its silent presence, connecting specialists with the past, but giving each of us the message of its essential nothingness and future desertion", as the most important student of its history, the late Apostolos Vacalopoulos, notes. It was inevitable that the position of...