A Tomb of the Unknown Soldier:
The Temple of Olympian Zeus (sorry for the bad quality!):
This is the Panathenaic stadium for the first modern Olympics, which took place in Athens in 1896:
More pretty architecture on our way to the Parthenon: 
Climbing up to the Acropolis, we saw tons of olive trees. This picture reminds me of Megan Whalen Turner's The Queen's Thief series:
The view of Athens at the top of the Acropolis = amazing:
At the Acropolis - the Temple of Athena Nike:
The PARTHENON!!!! (Which, by the way, is a temple to Athena.) I was super excited to see this after studying it so extensively at school:
The back of the Parthenon:
Beside the Parthenon is the Erechtheion (a temple dedicated to Poseidon, I believe). It rests on many sacred sites, so its structure is a bit irregular: 
I think these were stadiums or theatres... either way, they were right below the Acropolis:
The view at the bottom of the Acropolis:
The Acropolis Museum, which contains tons of sculptures, reliefs, and more from the Acropolis: 
The museum also had these cool archaeological excavation models:
And finally, lunch! :) Greece has lots of yummy bread.
Sorry for putting up so many pictures - I didn't realize how many I'd been uploading. Hopefully I haven't bored you! I promise the next post will be very very short. (This post took me around 2 hours!)
5 comments:
Eek! The Parthenon! The pictures are amazing. I would LOVE to head over to Greece one day. Sounds fantastic. :D
These are amazing, Priya! Thanks for sharing them ALL! I love the temple with the women as columns, don't you?
Jealous. :)
that first shot at the stadium is wonderful, with that wide angle and the clouds like that.
and I showed these to my mom, 'cause she lived in Athens for a bit when she was in college. :)
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