Ancient Agora

The Ancient Agora of Athens is a large parklike area to the northwest of Acropolis. It was the center for commerce, politics and law, and public and religious buildings were erected and demolished throughout the centuries. Today, it is mostly a grand collection of ruins, with a couple of exceptions; the aforeblogged Stoa of Attalos and the Temple of Hephaestus, which according to the onsite propaganda is the largest temple of the Greek world not in ruins or reconstructed.

The Agora today is a very pretty park.


The Panathenaic Way, which was the main road between Athens and the Acropolis. More than 2,500 years later, it still carries people.


The ruins of some temple. Nice view.


I'm glad to see they're using my tax money for something I'm interested in.


One of four statues of a giant.


The temple of Hephaestus.


Close up.