The Tomb of Marathon is a vaulted tomb where the 192 Athenian soldiers who died in the Battle of Marathon were buried. The tomb, also known as the “Pile”, is a reminder of the epic victory of the Greek – mainly outnumbered – forces against the “invincible” Persians. The tomb is 9 metres high and 50 metres in diameter. Right Read more…

At the end of 1830, the only state library, located on the island of Aegina, which Moustoxides named the National Library, had 1,018 volumes of printed books, which had been collected by Greeks and Philhellenes. The historic building of the National Library of Greece. In 1834, the Library was moved to Athens, the new capital of Greece, and was first Read more…

The University of Athens was founded in 1837. It was originally housed in the former residence of the architects Stamataios Kleanthi and Eduard Schaubert, in Plaka, the historic neighbourhood of Athens. It was the first university in Southeastern Europe and the second academic institution in Greece, after the Ionian Academy. Its first name was Othonian University after King Otto of Read more…

Akademia is a neoclassical building between Panepistimiou Street and Akademias Street in the centre of Athens. The building was designed as part of an architectural “trilogy” in 1859 by the Danish architect Theophil Hansen, together with the University and the National Library. Funds had been provided by the tycoon Simon Sina specifically for this purpose and the foundation stone was Read more…

The hill of Muses or Filopappou is a green area to the southwest of the Acropolis. It is a favourite walk for Athenians and from there you can get a great view of the Acropolis, the entire city of Athens and the Aegean Sea surrounding Attica. In 115 AD, a monument dedicated to the exiled Roman prince Gaius Julius Antiochus Read more…

Designed by the famous Danish architect Theophil Freiherr von Hansen in 1878, the Zappeion Palace was named after Evangelos Zappa, a businessman from Epirus who played a major role in the launch of the Zappeion Olympic Games, which paved the way for the modern Olympic Games. He offered to finance the revival of the modern Olympic Games and soon the Read more…