Marble Everywhere in Athens, Greece

I mentioned in my last post that Athens is full of marble. It lines absolutely everything! It's everyw.here from structures (the Parthenon) to sidewalks.

Greek logic: "No concrete? Pfft, we'll just use marble."

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] Syntagma, or Constitution Square.[/caption]

We headed out to look for the Academy, built on the site where Plato set up the very first Academy - the first real teaching school.

Fun fact - academy or academia is Greek for 'school', while 'school' or skhole is Greek for leisure! I don't know about you, but it seems like something about school got lost in translation...





Everything there was made from marble, and there were even little statues of owls decorating everywhere - the symbol of the goddess Athena.