The Mount Lycabettus (Λυκαβηττός) is the highest point in Athens, Greece. Located in the Kolonaki area, legend has it that the goddess Athena wanted her temple on the Acropolis to be closer to heaven, and therefore she took a huge rock to put under the mound, but on the way she received news that startled her and he dropped the stone, which fell on the city forming Lycabettus Mountain.
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| Mount Lycabettus Athens Greece |
This green space is also known as Los Lobos Hill because these animals lived in the pine forests on the slopes. In classical times, this mountain was covered by dense vegetation and its summit was crowned by a temple in honor of Zeus. The mountain was depopulated after the passage of the Turks through Athens. Between the years 1880 and 1915 reforestation work was carried out to return the green to the slopes of this colossal mountain. Today at its top is not the temple of Zeus, but rather the church of San Jorge, or Panagia Georgios, a small Orthodox chapel of which stands out its white facade and its impressive bell tower.
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| Mount Lycabettus Athens Greece |
If the sky is clear you can see the island of Aegina and the Peloponnese peninsula. Visit it at sunset or at night and you will not only see the Acropolis in a special way, but you will see the entire city and its network of streets bathed in the magical pinkish colors of the sunset and with the night lights that make Athens a city impossible to forget.