On Philopappou Hill in Athens

With President Macron gone, we were able to go up this hill which gives a great vantage point for photographing the Acropolis.

Philopappou Hill is also called the Hill of the Muses - according to Plutarch where Theseus and the Amazons did battle.  It is a nice place to take a stroll and you can take a panoramic view of the city below.

The monument on the top.

This rock structure on the hill is where a complex of three rooms with a cistern at the back were cut into the bedrock.  The use of the rooms is unknown but its cave like structure and proximity to the Athenian Agora must have led to the popular tradition that the building was the prison of Socrates and this is what the sign says.  During the Second World War the structure was used to hide the antiquities of Acropolis and the National Archaeological Museum and it was sealed up with a thick concrete wall.

A beautiful church viewed from the hill.