Acropolis Greek Tourist Town – Athena, Greek
Trip to Greeks-travel-Tourism. The Acropolis in Athens is best known as the Acropolis in the world. The word Acropolis means terbentengi or fortress in the ancient city of Greece, or can also mean building height in place, like the top of the hill or the highest city. Although there are a lot of the Acropolis in Greece, but that in Athens without any conditions meet the best classification. This 3 hectare area located at an altitude of 150 meters on the hill. Located a few miles from the center of Athens, Greece.
High hill is not enough to qualify as a fortress, although at that height. As fort he was surrounded by a large wall along the 760 meters with a wall height of 10 meters was a wall thickness of between 3.5 to 6 meters. This wall serves as the main castle until the fifth century.
The author visited this place from the port of Piraeus by train. The journey takes only 20 minutes of this, pay one euro train ticket or USD 15.000 valid for 1.5 hours. Through the dismissal will be 7 times until the termination of the Acropolis Monastiraki which are, if you want to continue the journey to the City of Athens is over three station stops.
Acropolis became so popular as a tourist attraction because of its simplicity to the reach from all directions.
The main attraction of the Acropolis because of the Parthenon Temple (Temple of Athena parthenos) right in the middle of this hill. The Parthenon is the temple of Athena Greek god who was considered the patron deity of the people of Athens. Built during the twenty-five years on the fifth century BC. This is a building terutuh of ancient Greek buildings. Decorative statues are considered the highest artistic merit of its time. The Parthenon was used as a symbol of the former Ancient Greek democracy and is the world’s greatest historical monuments. Greek culture ministry is doing restoration work to preserve historic sites visited by thousands of people every day. If you visit today will not be the same as you visit ten years ago as the author had experienced. Had not installed the wire barrier to keep distance from the building. Now the presence of iron Steger quite disturbing sights and originality of the building was not roofed. According to archaeologists, because the roof of that time used is wood or other materials that fission time, we are not going to see the ancient buildings roofed. Unless that was designed from scratch using a stone dome.
Acropolis citadel.
According to the experts of this temple is the replacement of the temple which was destroyed by his predecessor Persian invasion. Because the history of the Parthenon scrolling is not only the financial center of the kingdom of Athens. Sixth-century church that made the offer for Virgin Mary (mother of Jesus). After the conquest by the Ottoman Turks, in enable a mosque in the year and there 1460an minarets or towers used to be built along with the mosque with balcony used to call people to prayer.
At the entrance to the south we could see was a solid standing outdoor theater, or outdoor theater of Dionysus and a few hundred yards away is a theater again Harodes Atticus Theater is in the process of restoration or renovation.
Entrance to the Acropolis, the marble steps and through the lime stone. Marble pillars big it made the atmosphere really feels we are in this age when the building is made.
At the top of the Acropolis you can see the view from the city of Athens is filled with apartment buildings and white colors. The walls are not too high this can free us to enjoy around the Acropolis. Only in places visited by millions of people are made of marble stones in the road become slippery shiny. We must make extra careful to walk.
The big question of the visitors ancient sites of Greece, of course is how to bring the marble-large piece of marble to the top of the hill 150 meters diketinggian it. Technology owned what in the world of human civilization at that time. In terms of art they are also very good at carving marble.
Maybe we should change our thinking concepts to understand the circumstances. So we are not confined by the technology now applied for at that time. They have a technology that could be more modern, ancient views of objects that we see in this the Acropolis.
