The Athens Metro apart from being spacious, clean and on time (no really, it is!) also is host to many interesting sights. Not just the sights it can transport you to above ground, but sights IN the stations themselves. Some stations have modern art exhibits, while others, as is the case with the downtown
Monastiraki station, are Museums, hosting original antiquities found
in situ during the excavations that preceded the construction of the Underground.
The following Photographs were taken on the 10.06.2008. If you find them interesting, feel free to use them, but
please reference them back to this site!
Finds include the ancient bed of the Eridanos river. The vault is dated to the time of Hadria (2nd century A.D.), while the finds in this picture cover an impressive 10 centuries, from the 5th century B.C. to the 5th A.D.!
Stromatography of the site presented in full...
A walk over antiquities to get to the train...
explanations, in Greek and English even offer ceramic typology charts...
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