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Acropolis in Athens: the temple of Erechtheion with caryatids.
The south side of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis in Athens with the marble caryatids which support the roof of the south porch of the Erechtheion.
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance.
De Akropolis in Athene: Erechtheion met de kariatiden.
After our initial three days in Athens and then 11 nights on Crete, we flew back to Athens for one night before flying back to the states. One thing I didn't get a shot of on the first 3 nights was the Acropolis with some warm evening light after all the the tourists had been ushered out. So we went back up to Filopappou Hill, which was a very short walk from our hotel, and watched the light warm up the walls of the Acropolis. A very fitting way to end our trip to Greece (Way better than what happened the next morning - getting my wallet pick pocketed on the metro on the way to the airport)!
The Erectheion is an ancient Greek temple on the north side of the Acropolis of Athens in Greece which was dedicated to both Athena and Poseidon.
The famous "Porch of the Maidens", with six draped female figures (caryatids) as supporting columns. The porch was built to conceal the giant 15-ft beam needed to support the southwest corner over the Kekropion, after the building was drastically reduced in size and budget following the onset of the Peloponnesian war.
In 1801 one of the caryatids and the north column of the east porch together with the overlying section of the entablature were removed by Lord Elgin in order to decorate his Scottish mansion, and were later sold to the British Museum (along with the pedimental and frieze sculpture taken from the Parthenon). Athenian legend had it that at night the remaining five Caryatids could be heard wailing for their lost sister. Elgin attempted to remove a second Caryatid. When technical difficulties arose, he tried to have it sawn to pieces. The statue was smashed, and its fragments were left behind. It was later reconstructed haphazardly with cement and iron rods.
'Acropolis of Athens' - The East Facade of the Parthenon on the Athens Acropolis, Greece featuring the massive Doric order columns
So, I found some more folders hidden away on my HDD's... Here is a five image stitch of the Acropolis of Athens from the Europe Trip in 2010.
Het Parthenon - Acropolis - Athene - Griekenland
Het Parthenon (Oudgrieks: Παρθενών) was de tempel voor Athena Parthenos (de Maagd), die de beschermgodin was van de stad Athene, op de Akropolis van Athene. De tempel vormt het hoogtepunt van de Atheense bouwkunst in de klassieke periode van de vijfde eeuw v.Chr.
Het Parthenon is een Dorische tempel, al zijn er ook enkele Ionische elementen (de vier zuilen in de Opisthodomos) en heeft het aan voor- en achterzijde acht zuilen in plaats van de gebruikelijke zes.
In 1975 is de Griekse regering begonnen met een gezamenlijke inspanning om het Parthenon en andere structuren op de Akropolis te herstellen.
Het Parthenon - Acropolis - Athene - Griekenland
Het Parthenon (Oudgrieks: Παρθενών) was de tempel voor Athena Parthenos (de Maagd), die de beschermgodin was van de stad Athene, op de Akropolis van Athene. De tempel vormt het hoogtepunt van de Atheense bouwkunst in de klassieke periode van de vijfde eeuw v.Chr.
Het Parthenon is een Dorische tempel, al zijn er ook enkele Ionische elementen (de vier zuilen in de Opisthodomos) en heeft het aan voor- en achterzijde acht zuilen in plaats van de gebruikelijke zes.
In 1975 is de Griekse regering begonnen met een gezamenlijke inspanning om het Parthenon en andere structuren op de Akropolis te herstellen.
The Propylaia were the monumental entrance gates to the Acropolis. Their ceremonial function was to divide secular from sacred. Like the Parthenon, they were part of Classical Greece's building spree in the 5th c BCE. And, like the Parthenon, they were used as a powder magazine by the Ottomans and were blown to ruination by a hit by a Venetian mortar shell in 1687.
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The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a high rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The word acropolis comes from the Greek words ἄκρον (akron, "edge, extremity") and πόλις (polis, "city"). Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as "The Acropolis" without qualification.
While there is evidence that the hill was inhabited as far back as the fourth millennium BC, it was Pericles (c. 495 – 429 BC) in the fifth century BC who coordinated the construction of the site's most important buildings including the Parthenon, the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the temple of Athena Nike. The Parthenon and the other buildings were seriously damaged during the 1687 siege by the Venetians in the Morean War when the Parthenon was being used for gunpowder storage and was hit by a cannonball.
The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the preeminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007.