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Ancient Athens’s largest building, the Panathenaic Stadium, has a capacity for 60,000 spectators. Constructed around 335 BC during the era of Herodes Atticus, the venue hosted the Panathenaic Games where runners competed in races around the track. The 204-meter-long track was designed with four double herms, where runners would turn in the races. Around AD 140, the stadium was updated with new marble seating by Herodes Atticus. The structure that tourists see today is a replica of the original stadium, which was rebuilt for the Olympic Games of 1896. This modern-era Olympic Stadium was created in the identical fashion as the Panathenaic Stadium, with 47 tiers of seating and a rounded southeast end.

Location: Ardettos Hill, Athens

The Parthenon, the Erechtheion and the other monuments of this world-famous archaeological site have been the first stop of every visitor in Athens for centuries. A once in a lifetime experience that also includes a visit to the stunning Acropolis Museum, an exploration of the streets of ancient Plaka, a walk along beautiful Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, consecutive stops at the Ancient and the Roman Agora and, finally, food and drink at Thiseio, Psyri, Monastiraki or the hip Agia Irini Square. A marvellous choice where you can enjoy the utmost of comfort if you pick the Marblous as your base.

One of the legendary sites that sits beneath the slopes of the Acropolis on the southwest side, is the stunning open-air theatre, Odeon of Herodes Atticus. When Pausanias, the Greek traveller and geographer from the second century AD, visited Athens during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, he described the Odeon theatre as “the finest building of its type”.