Pnyx
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The Pnyx is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC, the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx to host their popular assemblies, making the hill one of the e
Pnyx speaker's platform
A panorama of the Pnyx
Pnyx foreground, speaker's platform right, Acropolis background.
An albumen print of the carved speaker's staircase of the Pnyx, taken circa 1865–1895, looking west.
Syntagma Square
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Syntagma Square is the central square of Athens, Greece. The square is named after the Constitution that Otto, the first King of Greece, was obliged to grant after a popular and military uprising on 3
Pnyx
…important sites in the creation of democracy. The Pnyx is located less than 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) west of the Acropolis and about 2 km south-west of the Syntagma Square in the centre of Athens. The "mainly natural hollow" was first used from before 500 BC to perhaps 404 BC, when the arrangement was changed by adding a…
View of Syntagma Square and the Old Royal Palace from atop the Pallis Mansion
View of Syntagma Square towards the Old Royal Palace
View of the hotels to the north side of the square, along King George I Street
Syntagma Square as seen from Amalias Avenue (east side) in 2015