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Acropolis

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Athens, Central Greece, Greece
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About Acropolis

The Acropolis of Athens is famous among locals and visitors and an old bastion situated on a rough outcrop over the city of Athens and contains the remaining parts of a few antiquated structures of extraordinary compositional and notable criticalness, the most acclaimed being the Parthenon.

Despite the fact that the term acropolis is no specific and there are numerous different acropoleis in Greece, the hugeness of the Acropolis of Athens is to such an extent that it is normally known as "The Acropolis" without capability.

Amid old circumstances it was referred to likewise more appropriately as Cecropia, after the unbelievable serpent-man, Cecrops, the primary Athenian ruler.

Like clockwork, the Athenians had a celebration called the Panathenaea that matched the Olympic Games in fame. Amid the celebration, a parade went through the city by means of the Panathenaic Way and finished on the Acropolis.

There, another robe of woven fleece peplos was put on either the statue of Athena Polias in the Erechtheum or on the statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon.

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