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.

The acropolis offers spectacular views of the surrounding harbours and coastline.

The buildings of the Acropolis in Athens served as the palace for the dukes.

The Acropolis was excavated by Alfred Biliotti and Auguste Salzmann between 1852 and 1864.

Athens is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery.

The Acropolis, though in ruins, still stands and is a symbol of modern Athens.

The acropolis was excavated in 1902, and the surrounding hills have been methodically investigated by subsequent excavations.

At the top of the hill was the acropolis, with the temple complex of Athena Kameiras and the stoa.

Some of them are located at the Acropolis Museum, others are in the British Museum, and one is at the Louvre museum.

I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Acropolis in Athens. That's a lot of information.

Once inside, he seized the Cadmeia (the Theban acropolis), and forced the anti Spartan party to flee the city.

In its interior, there was a water clock (or clepsydra), driven by water coming down from the Acropolis.

One interpretation is that it depicts an idealized version of the Panathenaic procession from the Dipylon Gate in the Kerameikos to the Acropolis.

He started an ambitious project that generated most of the surviving structures on the Acropolis (including the Parthenon).

It funds projects on archaeological sites which will bury and destroy ancient monuments witness the case of the Acropolis Museum.

The daily Tiempo has exposed the fart that New Acropolis, through its various branches, receives subsidies from the Madrid community C98).

In Greece there were a number of attacks a bus explosion near Acropolis and, of course, the explosion at the Franco Hellenic school.

The ancient quarry is protected by law, and used exclusively to obtain material for the Acropolis Restoration Project.

The signing of the Accession Treaties beneath the Acropolis and seven successful referenda have amply met this goal.

Finally, the accession signing ceremony took place at the foot of the Acropolis where the new Parthenon museum is also located.

Note should also be taken of the activities of the New Acropolis sect which is said to be active in 27 provinces of Spain where its membership is said to be about 1 000.

Athens is home to the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities, as well as the new Acropolis Museum.

We could have led Europe in another direction, largely by taking account of the demands made through the demonstrations and the forums which have been held in parallel with the Acropolis Summit.

We are not in any way committed to a celebration on 16 April in the shadow of the Acropolis, however, though we would like to be part of it.

The unfinished temple at Segesta ( c. 430 BC) The Hephaesteum below the Acropolis at Athens, long known as the Theseum (449 444 BC), also one of the most intact Greek temples surviving from antiquity) The Temple of Poseidon on Cape Sunium ( c. 449 BC)Hexastyle was also applied to Ionic temples, such as the prostyle porch of the sanctuary of Athena on the Erechtheum, at the Acropolis of Athens.

When the bowl became full of water, it would sink into the pot, and the manager would empty the bowl and again put it on the top of the water in the pot.

Acropolis Above the modern town rises the acropolis of Lindos, a natural citadel which was fortified successively by the Greeks, the Romans, the Byzantines, the Knights of St John and the Ottomans.

The town of Uherské Hradiště is one of the region s natural centres, offering visitors many ancient monuments, the most important of these being the Acropolis of Great Moravia.

It confirmed the regeneration of Europe we celebrated it on the foothills of the Acropolis, our wish being to provide a particular symbolism for the continuation of European civilisation.

Plaka, Monastiraki, and Thission Plaka (), lying just beneath the Acropolis, is famous for its plentiful neoclassical architecture, making up one of the most scenic districts of the city.

At the temple of Aphrodite on the summit of Acrocorinth (before the Roman destruction of the city in 146 BC), intercourse with her priestesses was considered a method of worshiping Aphrodite.

This was the first and largest in a series of campaigns including Mohenjo daro (Pakistan), Fes (Morocco), Kathmandu (Nepal), Borobudur (Indonesia) and the Acropolis (Greece).

This temple was not rebuilt when the city was re established under Roman rule in 44 BC, but the fertility rituals likely continued in the main city near the agora.

But having this column here is a really important reminder of the scale of those buildings in the Acropolis, because when you're standing in the Museum you forget...

Antiquities from excavations started to come to the museum in the latter part of the 19th century as a result of the work of the Egypt Exploration Fund under the efforts of E.A.

Mr President, Mr President of the Commission, Mr President in Office of the Council, I believe that the Greek Presidency will be forever associated with the picture at the foot of the Acropolis, where the reunification of Europe took place.

Jubilee events in the week of 30 October included balls, galas, parades, a thanksgiving service at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, and a lunch for 500 invited guests in a blue and white tent on the Acropolis.

In line with the thinking of the Presidency, firstly, with regard to enlargement, the ceremony of 16 April in the Stoa, in the Market Square next to the Acropolis, was an important event.

Coincidentally archaeology has turned up a major fire on the acropolis of Xanthus in the mid 6th century BC, but as Antony Keen points out, there is no way to connect that fire with the event presented by Herodotus.

You have dealt with a number of very heavy dossiers, and the finalisation of the accession dossiers on the Acropolis on 16 June gave us a stunning picture, also for those who were only able to follow the proceedings on television.

Also, Alexander sent 300 Persian armours to the Parthenon of Athens as an oblation to Athena, with this epigram Alexander, son of Philipp, and the Greeks, except of Lacedaemonians, from the barbarians who live in Asia .

Some of our colleagues have been disappointed by the judgment.

It is our belief, however, that we should welcome our new partners in a particularly splendid way, and there is in my view no better way to do this than on the Acropolis, so that we celebrate the unity of Europe right there on the Acropolis.

PARIS The recent cover of Der Spiegel showing German Chancellor Angela Merkel in front of the Acropolis surrounded by Nazi officers serves an important purpose it finally poses, in a way that cannot be evaded, the question of Germanophobia in Europe.