★ UNESCO
World Heritage
World Heritage
📷 Kevin Lee · Pexels
Where in the world
Greece
Acropolis of Athens
Greek · Greece
Field notes
- civilizations
- Greek
- types
- Citadel
- built
- 500 BCE — 406 BCE
- occupied
- 1,400 BCE — 600 CE
- visitors
- 4,557,693 / year
- country
- Greece
The site
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel crowning a rocky outcrop above the Greek capital, holding the remains of several buildings of profound architectural importance. Its most celebrated monument is the Parthenon, part of a construction program coordinated by Pericles in the fifth century BCE. Though the hill was inhabited millennia earlier, it is these classical temples, badly damaged in a 1687 siege, that draw millions of visitors each year.
