The sacred rock and its early myths
The golden age of Pericles
Reinvented through the ages
Preserving the ancient stones
Which country's forces bombarded the Acropolis in 1687, causing the Parthenon explosion?
What did the Ottoman Empire build inside the Parthenon when they converted it into a mosque?
diego Build the ancient temples on the hill to discover how the Acropolis was designed.
In what year did Greece gain independence, beginning its quest to reclaim the Acropolis?
diego Athenian Acropolis
A temple, a church, and a mosque on the hill! (Oh, she wore every crown!)
diego A single Venetian mortar shell in 1687 caused the greatest disaster in the Parthenon's history.
What was stored inside the Parthenon that caused it to explode during the 1687 siege?
The mosque inside a ruin: After the 1687 explosion, a smaller, domed mosque was built directly inside the hollowed-out ruins of the Parthenon for the local garrison.
The citadel or high fortified area of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill. In 1458, the Ottoman Turks converted a temple on the Athenian Acropolis into a mosque.