Greek City Times Acropolis Museum Breaks Visitor Records, Pushes for Parthenon Marbles Return Discover the Acropolis Museum's ...

One of the questions I hear most often is whether it’s worth visiting the most popular tourist attractions in Europe, or if they’re too overhyped to live up to their reputations? The truth is that ...

Presiding over Nashville’s Centennial Park lives the world’s only exact-size replica of the Parthenon ... Nashville was already known as the Athens of the South due to its numerous higher ...

With jobs in overseas education (currently in Athens, Greece), when Cabby and Maddy come to their ... the bear climbing claw marks on the aspens around the cabin.” During the Christmas holidays of ...

While there are no “traditional” Christmas markets ... and mythology of not just the Parthenon – the temple for Athena, patron and protector of Athens – but monuments like the Erechtheion ...

Known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles, the 2,500-year-old sculptures for centuries adorned the Parthenon temple built at the pinnacle of ancient Athens's power at the Acropolis citadel in honour ...

“The Parthenon in Centennial Park is a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens, and it's so unique ... head to this Christmas-themed dive bar for cold beer and karaoke.

Most recently, a tiny graffito carved into a marble outcrop seems to show the presence of a lost temple on the site of the Parthenon, Athens’s holy rock. Discovered on a dirt track leading from ...

These sculptures came not from Italy but from Ottoman-occupied Athens, where they had been pried from, or otherwise collected around, the ruins of the Parthenon, at the instruction of Thomas Bruce ...

The British poet Lord Byron arrived in Greece on Christmas Eve 1823 to join the ... arms of a personified Hellas still stands in central Athens. Why was Byron, one of the most famous and ...

The view from the top is always breathtaking, fulfilling. And when the top you’ve reached is the Parthenon of the Acropolis in Athens, you’re stone in love not only with the view — but with ...

ATHENS - Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday (Jan 25) repeated calls for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Athens from the British Museum, months after a diplomatic ...