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Kerameikos Archaeological Site

Sight4.4 · 6 3184.1 · 723≈ 1 h 15 minEntry: ~10 €1.6 km from the center

Athens' ancient cemetery and the potters' quarter that gave 'ceramics' its name. The double Dipylon gates stood here, roads set out for the Academy and Eleusis, and along the Street of Tombs survive 4th-century-BC gravestones with finely carved reliefs. A small museum displays funerary sculpture and vases; olive trees offer shade even in summer.

Highlights

  • The cemetery behind 'ceramics'
  • Dipylon gates and Themistoclean wall
  • Street of Tombs with 4th-c.-BC reliefs
  • Museum of funerary sculpture

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