{"id":7704,"date":"2024-10-07T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/?page_id=7704"},"modified":"2025-01-24T09:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T09:25:24","slug":"in-the-historical-center-of-athens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/in-the-historical-center-of-athens\/","title":{"rendered":"In the historical center of Athens!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The historical center of Athens includes the Acropolis hill with its North and South slopes, which was the central point of Athenian worship and religion, the Ancient Agora, the Areios Pagos hill, the Roman Agora, the Hadrian’s Library, the western hills of Pnyx, Filopappos and Nymphs (Observatory), where daily life developed and finally, Kerameikos, at the edge of the city, which was a cemetery and the settlement of pottery workshops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this very area, Democracy, Philosophy, Theater and Freedom of expression were born, the intellectual elements that still give the values \u200b\u200band principles of the modern western world.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The naturally fortified hill of the  Acropolis of Athens <\/a>  has been inhabited since the Neolithic era, while in the
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Ancient Agora of Athens<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The Ancient Agora of Athens<\/a> was the center of public life. The large open square fascinated the Athenians on various occasions: trade, elections, consultations, trials but also theatrical events, ceremonies, military gymnasiums or sports competitions, everything could take place in the Agora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Southern Slope of the Acropolis<\/a> was undoubtedly the most important religious center in antiquity, after the Holy Rock itself, and the main cultural core of Asteos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Roman Agora and Hadrian’s Library<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The archaeological sites of the Roman Agora<\/a> and the Library of Hadrian<\/a> occupy an area with a total area of \u200b\u200b28,000 m2, in the heart of the ancient city, north of the Acropolis and east of the Ancient Agora.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Western Hills of Muses (Filopappos), Pnyx, Nymph<\/a>s<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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The area of \u200b\u200bthe\u00a0Western Hills \u2013 Mouses (Filopappos), Pnyx, Nymphs\u00a0\u2013 began to be inhabited in the 6th BC. century with the installation of the Church of the Municipality on the hill of Pnyx and the operation of Koilis Street, which led from Athens to Piraeus crossing the urban area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kerameikos<\/a>\u00a0extends\u00a0to the northwestern outskirts of Athens. It was the most important cemetery of the ancient city, in use from the Prehistoric period to Late Antiquity and at the same time one of the most important centers of pottery and vase painting in the ancient world. In Kerameikos the best preserved part of the ancient wall of Athens is preserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acropolis Ancient Agora of Athens South and North Slope Roman Agora and Hadrian’s Library Western Hills of Muses (Filopappos), Pnyx, Nymphs Kerameikos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-fullwidth.php","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7704","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":78,"href":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8288,"href":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7704\/revisions\/8288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efaathculture.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}