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A Dilapidated Building — Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Barns or Any Dilapidated Buildings

This is our entry in Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Barns or Any Dilapidated Buildings.

We visited Greece in 2016 and found it full of dilapidated buildings! The following photo shows one we found in the Acropolis in Athens.

Dilapidated in the Acropolis

This photo was taken on September 21, 2016, using an Olympus TG-4.

The Sky-Blue-White

This is our entry in The Daily Post Daily Prompt: Unfurl.

This Greek flag, unfurling in a stiff breeze, stands watch over the Acropolis of Athens, Greece, on a bright, sunny day with cotton-white clouds overhead. It is easy to see why this flag’s popular name is the “sky-blue-white.”

Greek Flag over the Acropolis

This photo was taken on September 21, 2016. Specs are:

Olympus TG-4, ISO 100, f/13, 1/400 sec, 8.41 mm

Mount Lycabettus at Sunset

In September 2016, we visited Athens, Greece. This is a nighttime view of Mount Lycabettus, as seen from a higher street in Athens just below the Acropolis. Lycabettus is the highest hill of Athens. The Chapel of Saint George can be seen on the top.

iBallRTW-Acropolis at Sunset — Mount Lycabettus at Sunset

This photo was taken on September 21, 2016. Specs are:

Canon 100D, ISO 100, f/5.6, 10.0 sec, 55 mm

The Acropolis of Athens

As almost every tourist in Athens does, we climbed the long hill to the Acropolis (i.e., High City) last September as part of a guided walking tour of the city.

iballrtw_140425_0972 — Acropolis of Athens

The entrance to the Acropolis is through a gateway called the Propylaea.

Propylaea

In 1975, reconstruction efforts began to fully restore the Acropolis and its artifacts from mechanical, chemical, and biological damage. Restoration of the relatively small temple of Athena Nike, just south of the Propylaea gateway, was completed in 2010.

Temple of Athena Nike

The greatest structure on the Acropolis, and the best known, is the Parthenon, which was dedicated to Athena, the Greek goddess of war and wisdom. In addition to on-going damage since its completion in 438 B.C., the Parthenon was further damaged by an earthquake in 1981.

Parthenon

Near the Parthenon is the temple known as the Erechtheion, which was actually the most holy place on the Acropolis. It is most famous for the columns on one porch (the Kore) carved in the shape of women, the Caryatids. One of the early restoration projects, the Erechtheion was completely restored between 1979 and 1987.

Erechtheion

Erechtheion Kore

There were originally six columns but one was “rescued” by the English in the early 1800s. That column is now on display in the British Museum.

Caryatids

The night after our tour, we took our cameras and captured various views of the Acropolis from the city below. The renovation scaffolding will remain in view for future visitors for at least another decade.

Acropolis of Athens

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