| The Acropolis | This is the most famous place in Greece, the Acropolis. You have to climb steps to get to the top but it is not too hard. It was built over 2000 years ago but some of the walls are even older. |
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| The Parhenon |
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This is the Parthenon. It is a lot bigger than you think. Some people get confused between the Parthenon and the Acropolis. The Acropolis is the mountain and it means the high city. The Parthenon is the building. |
| The Caryatdis | This is the porch of the maidens or the Caryatids as some people call them. They are holding up the roof on their heads. The real ones are in the museum because the air in Athens was making them fall apart. Many of the statues from the Parthenon are in the museum but some of them are in England. those are called Elgin marbles and Greece is trying to get them back but the English say they belong to them now because they bought them from the Turks. |
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| The Thission |
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This building is called the Thission and it is not as ruined as the Parthenon. This is where the movie For the Love of Benji was filmed. This where he came when he stole the sausages and shared them with his friend |
| The Plaka | This is the Plaka. There are places like this all over and in some places it's like there is an underground city. That's because they built the new city on top of the older cities. |
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| The Temple of Zeus |  |
This is the temple of Zeus. It was the biggest one they built. It was so big they couldn't finish it. In front of it you can see Hadrian's arch which used to be the entrance of the city. Now the city goes on forever. |
| The Theater of Herod Atticus | This is the Theater of Herod Atticus, right next to the Acropolis. They still have shows here when the weather is nice. It was built when the Romans were in Greece. |
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