The Acropolis of Athens . It is located in the city of Athens , which is the capital of Greece today. The place enjoys an excellent Mediterranean climate . Traveling to The Acropolis is an excellent destination because of the ease of getting there. To travel to the Acropolis it is only necessary to travel to the city of Athens , either by air or by land .
History
The Acropolis was a great cult center, located at the top of the city of Athens, in which the Greeks venerated their gods and celebrated the events that occurred in their history. Acropolis etymologically means “city on high”, since it is located on top of the city. This place is (although it has been deteriorated by its time and by the hand of modern man) full of statues and figures on its walls that represent all kinds of scenes from Greek mythology .
The most important place on the Acropolis is the Parthenon , which is a temple dedicated to the guardian goddess of Athens: The goddess Athena . Inside this temple, there is an exhibition of the great sculptural, aesthetic, architectural and mathematical capacity of the Greeks.
For these reasons alone, it can be said that traveling to The Acropolis is a wonderful experience. However, we are going to tell you more compelling reasons why The Acropolis is considered one of the wonders of the modern world.
The Acropolis dates from 450 BC . approximately. This means that it is almost 2,500 years old. As you can see, it is an impressively engineered structure, so not only is it beautiful but it has been so well designed that it still stands today.
The Parthenon, the main temple of the Acropolis, is a little deteriorated but it is not precisely because of the passage of time, but because there, when the Turks in 1687 invaded Athens, they deposited the gunpowder and in an accident there was a great explosion. Even with an explosion of such magnitude the Parthenon and the Acropolis are preserved. Many of his statues are still well preserved there, however, many of them were sold to the British museum, losing priceless pieces of their magic.
Technical quality
The Acropolis, along with the Parthenon, are a great example of the highest levels of technique and splendor that human beings can exhibit. Not only because of the strength and resistance of the buildings we can highlight the engineering of this place, but also because in this structure quality blends with harmony and beauty. The Acropolis is built largely of marble, the Parthenon, for example, is made of marble.
Its columns are often statues, pieces of invaluable artistic value, its walls represent works of the gods and men. Besides quality and beauty, the Parthenon is a display of incredible mathematics, geometry and optics. This site is built in such a way that, from the angle you look at it, it appears perfectly symmetrical. For this, the Greeks calculated and arranged their walls and columns at distances and in curves that give the desired optical effect.
World Heritage
The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the spirit and classical civilization and make up the greatest architectural and artistic complex bequeathed by ancient Greece to the world. In the second half of the 5th century BC , Athens, following the victory against the Persians and the establishment of democracy , took a leading position among the other states of the ancient world. In the centuries that followed, an exceptional group of artists put into effect the ambitious projects of the Athenian statesman Pericles and, under the inspired guidance of the sculptor Pheidias, the rocky hill was transformed into a unique monument of thought and letters. The most important monuments were built during that time: the Parthenon , built by Ictinus, the Erechtheon , the Propylaea , the monumental entrance to the acropolis, designed by Mnesicles, etc.
Artistic and cultural value
Traveling to the Acropolis and the Parthenon is to go to a place full of sculpture, murals, aesthetic talent, geometric grandeur and an important testimony of the symbols and beliefs of Greek culture. The place has in many of its passages sculptures that are not only arranged in the most beautiful and perfect way (important ideals of the Greeks), but also tell us about the way of being of the Greek man of the 5th century BC.
The city walls display men and gods from the many stories of Greek mythology. The Parthenon is arranged with beautiful columns, which not only stand out for this but are also an interesting optical illusion, testimony to the Greek genius and his obsession with perfection. In truth, traveling to the Acropolis is going to a place where artistic value merges with cultural value in such a way that what is beautiful is knowing and knowledge is beautiful.
Recognition of researchers
Mathematical experts, architects, historians, thinkers and engineers recognize that this monument is a marvel from every field of knowledge. In it, the perfect world of mathematics is brought to the physical world, architecture fuses a monument full of statues with a structure capable of withstanding the harshest tests of time, historians never tire of studying and traveling to the Acropolis to see the cultural legacy that the Greeks have left us. It is for these reasons and for many more that many see the Parthenon as one of the possible Seven Wonders of the Modern World .