The Tower of the Winds, also called horologion (timepiece), is an octagonal Pentelic marble tower on the Roman agora in Athens. It was supposedly built by Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, but according to other sources might have been constructed in the 2nd century BC before the rest of the forum.
The 12 m tall structure has a diameter of about 8 m and was topped in antiquity by a wea...
The acropolis is in fact an unfinished monument - originally called the "National Monument". Initiated in 1816, a year after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, it was meant to be a replica of the Parthenon in Athens, as a memorial to those who had died in the Napoleonic Wars.
The newest and biggest shopping mall in Athens area. Contains Village Cinema complex, food stores, bowling alleys, numerous shops and a big underground car park.
From CNN.com: ATHENS, Greece (Reuters) -- A Cypriot airliner carrying 110 people crashed north of Athens on Sunday, Greek state television reported.
State television said there was an unconfirmed report that one of the pilots of the Helios Airlines plane had collapsed with illness just before the crash.
A Greek Defense Ministry official told Reuters the airplane ha...