Best historic in Athens
9 places from 6 Athens travel vlogs, most-mentioned first. The play button jumps to that moment in the video.
9 places · most mentioned first
Acropolis
Athens' hilltop 'high city', once a place of worship and refuge, crowned by the Parthenon and rising above the modern city as a symbol of Greece's 5th-century BC golden age.
0:13· Wolters Worldin 6 vlogsAncient Agora
Ancient marketplace below the Acropolis and the hub of commercial, political and social life in Athens for some 800 years.
3:18· Rick Steves' Europein 4 vlogsPanathenaic Stadium
Ancient stadium that hosted the Panathenaic Games. It was rebuilt by Herodes Atticus and later restored for the 1896 Olympics.
5:32· Exotic Vacationin 3 vlogsRoman Agora
Roman-era marketplace ruins next to the Ancient Agora, built much later than the Greek agora and including three Byzantine churches.
2:33· Travelmojiin 2 vlogsTower of the Winds
One of the two most striking monuments within the Roman Agora.
2:52· Travelmojiin 2 vlogsOdeon of Herodes Atticus
An ancient stone amphitheatre on the slope of the Acropolis that still hosts performances.
11:22· Wolters Worldin 2 vlogs
Mentioned once
3 more picks, each from a single vlog, so not ranked.
Panathenaic Way
Ancient ceremonial path that grand processions followed from the town below up to the Acropolis.
Hadrian's Library
Ruins of a Roman library complex that is a highlight of the Roman Agora area.
2:54· Travelmoji1 vlogPhilopappos Monument
Monument atop Filopappou Hill honoring a Roman senator who was a great benefactor of Athens.
5:26· Exotic Vacation1 vlog