AT THE ACROPOLIS PARTHENON ON THE ACROPOLIS A family walks up to the Acropolis Its monuments stand high above the city of Athens At the top of the hill everyone admires the marble pillars of the Parthenon Then they wander among the other nearby temple ruins that honor ancient gods and goddesses
OTHER TOP SITES DELPHI MOUNT OLYMPUS PALACE OF KNOSSOS SANTORINI SURPRISE The ruins of the ancient city of Athens were found as workers were planning for the Acropolis Museum They had to make new plans to include them In the afternoon the family escapes the heat by visiting the Acropolis Museum Pottery and sculptures that are thousands of years old line the walls From a balcony they look down at ruins from ancient Athens Even in modern times Greece’s history is proudly on display
LOCATION NORTH MACEDONIA ALBANIA THESSALONIKI THESSALONIKI BULGARIA GREECE GREECE IONIAN SEA PATRAS PATRAS AEGEAN SEA ATHENS ATHENS MEDITERRANEAN SEA NOT GREEK TO THEM Greeks call their country Hellas in their language The name Greece was the Roman name of the country However research suggests that Graiko was an ancient name for early peoples of Greece
TURKEY Greece lies along the Mediterranean Sea in southeastern Europe Most of the country’s 50,949 square miles 131,957 square kilometers are on the Balkan Peninsula Greece’s capital Athens sits on the southeastern end of the mainland The rest of the country is scattered across more than 2,000 islands Albania North Macedonia and Bulgaria border Greece to the north A small part of Turkey touches Greece in the northeast The Aegean Sea lies to the east of Greece’s mainland The Ionian Sea lines Greece’s western coast E N W S
