Tower of the Winds Athens

... saw other displays at the Acropolis station. Wandering pretty much aimlessly we walked past the old Roman Agora (market) and the Tower of the Winds, commissioned by Julius Caesar. In this part of town almost every wall is covered in graffiti. We ...

... as the city's needs expanded in later times. Probably the most unusual ancient structure in town can be found here - the Tower of the Winds - which was built by a Syrian astronomer and the faces of which depicts carvings of different winds. Not sure ...

... on a special expedition just for the twelve of us to the Tower of the Winds in the ancient Roman agora. The Tower of the Winds, dated between 100-50 BCE, is an octagonal building that includes friezes of the eight anthromorphized winds, eight different ...

... . As we drank our last glass of honeydew melon juice, we talked together about an incident from earlier that day at the Tower of the Winds. An aggressive older American woman had accosted us on the street. Without even an "Excuse me, do you speak ...

... On our way to the Acropolis, we visited Hadrian's library (beginning 2nd century AD), the Roman Agora (marketplace), the well preserved Tower of the Winds (1st century BC built by a Syrian astronomer), the well-preserved Stoa of Eumenes which ...

... . We descended from the Areiopagus into the ancient Greek agora, not to be confused with the Roman agora with the Tower of the Winds we saw last week. Two different places. The agora was the marketplace, meeting place, and discussion place for ...

... what it once looked like but as the entrance is through the four tall columns of the 'Gate of Athena Archegetis' and with the impressive 'Tower of the Winds' also on the site it's well worth a visit. By the time we had picked our way around all the ...

... to describe what we've seen in the last 2 days, so I'll just name them. Yesterday - Ancient Agora, Roman Agora, Tower of the Winds, National Gardens, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Hadrian's Arch, Tomb of the Unknown Warrior with the changing of the Guard ...

... connecting the Agora to the Theater of Dionysos.   Just as we approach the entrance to the Roman Agora, we see the Tower of the Winds, built in the 1st century BC.  The tower contained a small clock (the Clock of Andronicus Cyrrhestes) that ...

inhabited for 7000 years birthplace of European civilization ancient Athens reached its high point in 5th c BC Tower of the Winds built by Syrian astronomer around 100BC Temple of Athena Nike built 427-424 BC Work began on Acropolis in 447BC ...