Ernst Ziller

The National Observatory of Athens is conducting tours in English, offering the public the opportunity to explore the night sky from the Hill of the Nymphs, opposite the Acropolis, through the 8-meter dome of the Doridis telescope. The refracting telescope was built by the French company P.F. Gautier in 1902 and is housed in a building designed by Ernst Ziller.

Located behind the Panathenaic Stadium, Athens's First Cemetery is famed for its remarkable funerary sculptures and monuments, many signed by eminent artists and architects.

Located behind the Panathenaic Stadium, Athens's First Cemetery is famed for its remarkable funerary sculptures and monuments, many signed by eminent artists and architects.

The Numismatic Museum pays tribute to Jurij Subic, the Slovenian painter invited to do the murals and ceiling paintings of the Ilion Melathron by Ernst Ziller, who had designed the mansion, and German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who was to live there, in December 1879.

Alternative concert organizers Velvet Room are taking over the neoclassical Bangeion Mansion, a former hotel designed by Ernst Ziller, in downtown Omonia on Friday, January 20, for a night of psychedelic and post-punk live music from local acts Acid Barretts, Monochromatic Visions, The Back Door Freaks and The Bonnie Nettles. The action starts at 9.30 p.m. and admission costs 3 euros.

A man walks past the fire-scarred building that used to host the historic Attikon and Apollon cinemas on Stadiou Street, downtown Athens, on Saturday. The Stavros Niarchos Foundation recently announced plans to subsidize the restoration of the building that was damaged by firebombs thrown by protesters during a violent riot in 2012. The interiors of the two theaters survived mostly unscathed.

During the 19th century, neo-classical buildings of architectural beauty sprouted at the foot of the Acropolis. In those days, Athens was a beautiful European capital with palaces, mansions, boulevards and some of the finest speciments of neoclassical architecture in the world.