Hadrian’s Library
Athens, Greece
Hadrian's Library is the great colonnaded building the emperor Hadrian gave Athens in AD 132, on the north side of…
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Greece's Roman remains sit inside the Greek cities the empire admired and rebuilt, so they are markets, libraries and forums in the middle of Athens and Thessaloniki rather than new towns.
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Roman Agora of Athens
Athens, Greece
The Roman Agora of Athens is the marketplace built with money from Julius Caesar and Augustus in the last decades BC, a…
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Roman Forum of Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece
The Roman Forum of Thessaloniki is the city's ancient civic square, a two-terraced complex uncovered by chance in…
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The Roman Agora in Athens has the Tower of the Winds, an octagonal marble clock tower that survives almost complete; Hadrian's Library, beside Monastiraki Square, keeps its facade of tall marble columns and the remains of three later churches; the Roman Forum of Thessaloniki has a restored odeon and a vaulted underground gallery above Aristotelous Square. The two Athens sites are a five-minute walk apart and both fall within the city's combined ticket; go at opening in summer.