Today, November 10, 2018, Angelina and I walked to this temple and it was a beautiful Fall day. There were lots of people, as the Athens Marathon is tomorrow and 55,000 runners signed up from 106 countries. We wanted Jorge to see the Andean pan pipe player that we saw walking toward the temple. The path toward the Acropolis reminds me of the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, CO, as there were street performers and vendors selling their wares. We saw a couple of green parrots and thought that they are so colorful and pretty. It is so green here even though it is Fall. The gardens surrounding the temple had many olive trees and oleander bushes flowering still. I found this temple to be beautiful and the relief details recounting battles were interesting. The last two ruin pictures are of Pan´s sanctuary (which is covered in bars, poor Pan). I like that mythical creature Pan, a satyr and the God of Nature. What a building and the architect is unknown.
The Temple of Hephaestus or Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple; it remains standing largely as built. It is a Doric peripteral temple, and is located at the north-west side of the Agora of Athens, on top of the Agoraios Kolonos hill. (Wikipedia)
I really liked coming to the Temple of Hephaestus it is so well kept and the perian marble is so pretty. It was also really cool to have seen the Altar of Zeus, the leader of all the Gods. They were great ruins to see, and I learned a tad bit about them.
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