Acropolis Of Athens Tapestries

Acropolis of Athens

The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on an extremely 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.

Tilt-shift Athens

Propylaia and Construction Crane

ATHENS - Temple of Zeus Acropolis Greece.

A Vintage Travel Art of the Acropolis Athens - Greece

View of the Acropolis, Athens by Frederic Edwin Church, 1869. Oil and graphite on cardboard.

The Acropolis is located on a flat-topped rock that rises 150 m (490 ft) above sea level in the city of Athens,

Close up of stone wall ruins, buildings and pillars at The Acropolis, Athens, Greece.

The beautiful Acropolis in a modern cyberpunk, neon-color style.

The beautiful Acropolis in a modern cyberpunk, neon-color style.

The beautiful Acropolis in a modern cyberpunk, neon-color style.

Athens after sunset with a view of the Parthenon on the Acropolis, the Parliament and the Saronic islands in Greece

My photo of The Erechtheum from Acropolis of Athens. The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens. For more photos from my travels please visit my shop here on Redbubble.

Around Athens are many architectural remnants of the glorious past of Greece, but the greatest of all is the assemblage of temples and the like within the Acropolis complex. This image is of the colonnade at the eastern end of the Erechtheion Those columns have stood there for maybe 2500 years. Remarkable! What I love about this image is the overall duo tone, the marble's orange against the cloudy blue sky.

Athens

Digital collage with a drawing of an ancient statue of the greek goddess Athena.

The Erechtheionn within the Acropolis complex in Athens is really something to see. It's been decades since you could approach many of the structures that reside within the complex, but no such problem when I was there in 1972; I have a separate picture of me sitting on the stones beneath caryatids, Of course, this is a much more recent image, but today's regimen does mean that there are no pesky tourists in the way when you want to capture an image of this ancient piece of Greek architecture. We had climbed up to the Acropolis early to get ahead of the crowds, a privilege we enjoyed for just a short while. By the time we left, there was a heaving mass of humanity finding its way into every corner of this magnificent place. So, what abou...

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