The Acropolis

History….

I am going in 25 days…

So AMAZING!! How did they do it?!
I had a poster of this as a little girl so when I finally saw it I was in tears! Like a dream come true! The climb up the stairs is a workout. But you see imprints of horses and shoes from centuries ago. You will never regret visiting this place! Getting a item to remeber this place by is pricey! So take photos on your own! I only hope to take my kids here one day!

Take CASH!!! They only accept cash for tickets to enter the Acropolis and the walk to the cash machine is all the way back down – and then back up again!

The day we climbed the Acropolis, it was 108 degrees F! The tour guide gave us all water so we wouldn’t pass out on the way up, but it was WELL worth the heat!

Don’t visit this place in 46-degree-C heat. It really is like being on a big griddle.

You have to visit once in your life. Amazing the amount of marble there.

People love it, people hate it, people want to put a bubble dome around it to preserve the marble from the acidity of the city’s smog. They talk about how it’s the one thing that compelled them to come to Athens. They talk about getting the PARTHENON marbles (Elgin my foot) back from the Brits. Bygone era or not, this place is the symbolic heart of Greece. True story: during the Nazi occupation, the Germans took the Greek flag off the Acropolis and erected a Swastiki in its place. One night, a couple Greek kids (teens?) stole up the outcropping and replaced the Nazi flag with the Greek one. Of course, it was a symbolic coup for the Hellenes and a pick-me-up if there ever was one. I believe the young men kept their mouths shut until the war was over.

beautiful and breath taking

Well, after taking a ton of photos of this place in 2004, I was happy to see (this year) that the construction process is finally doing something…

Apparently the columns, along the Sacred Way side, had large metal beams in them, that had rusted over the years? Hence why they were removed in 2004. They’ve recently put them back and the structure looks more like it did when I first saw it as a child.

... up there but well worth it. You really feel the wings of history despite all the construction work that always seems to be going on. The museum is quite nice too.