This post highlights historical places to visit in Athens Greece. It also provides insight into planning your itinerary for a ...

Temple of Olympian Zeus and Hadrian's Arch, Hadrian's Arch stands in the middle of one of the busiest junctions in Athens. Built in 130 BC to mark the edge of the classical city, these days the ...

Athens is an easy place to conquer in a long weekend, ... Temple of Olympian Zeus and Arch of Hadrian, at the southwest end of the National Garden, and south east of Acropolis. 2.

Engineers believe Hadrian’s Aqueduct, which was constructed in the second century, can help the city conserve dwindling water supplies amid worsening droughts.

Commissioned by Emperor Hadrian and completed around 140 AD, Hadrian’s Aqueduct flows some 23km from Mount Parnitha, north of the capital, directly into the heart of Athens.

Known as Hadrian’s Aqueduct, after the Roman emperor who commissioned it in the second century A.D. so that Romans could have baths, the structure then supplied Athens with water for centuries ...