Historic site
Tower of the Winds
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Πανωραία
September 20, 2022
The square has taken its name by the monument Horologion of Kyrrhestes (Tower of the Winds), an octagonal marble building with representations of the winds on its pediments. On its northern side stood until 1898 the madrassas of Athens, the Islamic seminary which during the reign of Otto has been converted into prisons and a place of executions. As a matter of fact there was a platanus tree, where they hanged those that were convicted, and they had to salute the tree, something that gave rise to a famous Greek phrase.
The square has taken its name by the monument Horologion of Kyrrhestes (Tower of the Winds), an octagonal marble building with representations of the winds on its pediments. On its northern side stood until 1898 the madrassas of Athens, the Islamic seminary which during the reign of Otto has been co…
Magda
July 16, 2017
A graceful stone tower dating back to the first century AD.
Daphne
October 14, 2019
This area is magical... The old streets of Plaka, little coffee shops and tavernas as well as The Ancient Agora nearby. Beautiful.
Dorothea
June 16, 2014
The Tower of the Winds is an octagonal Pentelic marble clocktower in the Roman Agora in Athens that functioned as a horologion or "timepiece".
Markos
February 27, 2018
a nice traditional neighborhood, just next to acropolis. Traditional small houses - the architecture of old Athens.
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Tower of the Winds