Parks & green · Koukaki / Thiseio

Philopappos Hill (Hill of the Muses)

Photo: Calidius · CC BY-SA 3.0

A pine-covered hill south-west of the Acropolis, open and unfenced, crowned by the 2nd-century AD Philopappos funerary monument. Its paths, terraces and the church of Agios Dimitrios Loumbardiaris were laid out by architect Dimitris Pikionis between 1954 and 1957 using salvaged marble and stone — a listed work of landscape architecture in its own right. The standard viewpoint for photographing the Acropolis at sunset.

Season

All year round

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