From the Stadium, we walked across the parking lot of the Zappeion. It's used as an exhibition hall of sorts. The gardens are beautiful.
We waited for the fountain to come back on to take this picture.
Flowers were everywhere in Athens. This trailing plant cascaded from the wall as we left the Zappeion. It resembled a type of phlox, but was nothing we'd ever seen before.
I mentioned Hadrian earlier. This was an arch he built to separate the older Greek Athens from the new Roman Hadrianopolis.
Just beyond Hadrian's Arch lies the ruins of his Temple of Olympian Zeus. It was started by the Greeks some 700 years before Hadrian finished it in 131 A.D.Here you can see how the columns were actually smaller stones stacked on top of one another.
The columns are massive. They are 56 feet high (compare that with 34-foot columns at the Parthenon). Originally there were 104 of them.
