After enjoying several of the sites at the west end of Dionysiou Areopagitou, we walked that scenic pedestrian street past the Acropolis to the east end where it meets Vasilissis Amalias Avenue. One of the most famous landmarks there is Hadrian's Arch.
There is also a marble bust of Melina Merkouri in this area.
We were heading to the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation and passed the Sanctuary of Olympian Zeus. Although we did not enter the Temple of the Olympian Zeus site, we got some good photographs of it from the outside.
On our way to the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, we passed this statue of U.S. president Harry S. Truman (it was in good shape when we saw it).
We also walked past the Panathenaic Stadium again.
The "Piano Stairs" are located very close to the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation.
The entrance to the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation faces the same open area square that this church faces.
The admission to the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation included personal audio guide devices that allowed the visitor to enter the nunber of the piece of display to hear a detailed description of each piece.
Much of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation collection can be viewed online.
The Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation has quite a few pieces displayed, but provides a lot of space between each piece on multiple floors in the building. It's not as massive as the Uffizi Gallery, for example, but it's still a sizable collection of varied works.
I found the pieces that used magnets and applied other laws of physics to be particularly novel.
Athens is full of things to see that are close to one another and we covered the attractions covered in this post in a matter of hours.
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