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UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Athens

2 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Athens.

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UNESCO sites in Athens

  • Acropolis, AthensCultural · 1987 · 1 km

    The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex bequeathed by Greek Antiquity to the world. In the second …

  • Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of ChiosCultural · 1990 · 9 km

    Although geographically distant from each other, these three monasteries (the first is in Attica, near Athens, the second in Phocida near Delphi, and the third on an island in the Aegean Sea, near Asia Minor) belong to t…

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