Acropolis

Acropolis is always in restoration since 1960's. It is almost impossible to find an angle where you can picture the Propylaea without cranes. It was crammed with tourist even before tourist season.

The Propylaea survived almost two thousand years, through Greece, Rome and Byzantine. It was only destroyed under the rule of the Latin Empire in 1656, and during the Greek-Turkish War in the turn of 1920's. I felt the misery of its state of destruction more than the greatness of the Atheanean culture. It was a good walk though.