The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

It’s astounding the things they leave lying around in Greece. Our ship has docked in ­Lavrio, southeast of Athens, and I’ve ...

I’m walking around the Colosseum in Rome, watching hundreds of other tourists doing the same, trying to imagine pivotal ...

By contrast, the Parthenon in Athens sits on top of ... where you can sit with cocktail in hand and admire the distant Doric and Ionic columns, just as the Ancient Greeks couldn’t because ...

London is a city people think they know before they arrive. They come for the skyline, where glass towers stand shoulder to ...

Its most iconic structure, the Parthenon, is a peripteral octastyle Doric temple, meaning it’s surrounded by columns, with eight on either end. The Pompidou Centre, which houses a public library ...

Shining like a marble-clad beacon from the top of its dramatic limestone crag, Athens’s ancient citadel (Acropolis means “upper city”) with its iconic 5th century BC temple the Parthenon is ...

Start at the top floor Parthenon Gallery ... Originally made up of 34 white marble Doric columns, 15 of which remain, it commands amazing views over the Aegean Sea, which are particularly ...