A Fresh Perspective on Travel Every Day
Modern Athens is a city that straddles the sea and the mountains, but its core is compact and walkable, particularly around the iconic Acropolis. Visitors often find that they can explore many ancient sites entirely on foot.
The Temple of Olympian Zeus took almost 650 years to construct. This monumental structure dominates a vast archaeological site located below the Acropolis in Central Athens. Remarkably, it was not originally intended to honor Olympian Zeus at all, and surprisingly, it isn’t even purely Greek in origin.