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That temple-crowned height over opposite where you stand is the most famous hill in Europe. Modern Athens is, for the most part, at the farther (north) side of the Acropolis. That large square building at the right, below and beyond the Acropolis, is the Royal Palace. Beyond the city you can see the sharp cone of Lykabettos — a long-extinct volcano with the little chapel of St. George at top.
The Acropolis was in older times a citadel protecting the town whose houses clustered below it. Twenty-four centuries ago Pisistratus made it splendid with temples, but these were destroyed by the Persians under Xerxes 480 B.C. Then Themistocles had defeated the Persians at Salamis (ten miles away behind you), and the Acropolis was once more safe and free. The Parthenon of Pentelic marble that the artist Phidias built on the height, thanks to Pericles, is the best finished and most beautiful temple in the world. At the west (left) end of the Parthenon you can see part of the Erechtheion and other remains of temples.
Part of the once magnificent Propylaea leads the approach to the shrine; you can see it at the extreme west (left) end of the height.
In the days of Roman dominion here (about 500 A.D.) Justinian made the Acropolis into a more military citadel. In the fourteenth century the Florentines captured it and held it till 1456, when it was surrendered to the Turks. In 1687, during a war between the Turks and the Venetians, an explosion destroyed the most beautiful building in the whole group — the Parthenon, and reduced it to what you now see — a fragment of time-yellowed marbles, the most noble remnant of the best art-period in the story of Greek civilization. In 1833, after the victorious close of the Greek struggle for independence, the Turks finally abandoned the ground. It belongs now to Greece and to the world.
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