City
Athens
Capital of Greece
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- The Acropolis rock; The Parthenon; The Propylaia and Erechtheion; Plaka and neighboring older districts; Lycabettus
- Viewpoint
- Use the conventional view from Philopappos Hill toward the Acropolis and the city to the northeast, preserving the extensive apartment landscape that makes the scene Athens rather than an isolated ancient sanctuary.
- Palette
- For this seasonally dry Mediterranean city, explicitly shift the greens toward grey-green, olive, dusty sage and pale khaki; pale limestone and slate-grey concrete shadows should dominate the urban mass, while olive and sage sit on the genuinely vegetated slopes.
- Guarded against
- Avoid making Athens look like Santorini with whitewashed island cliffs, Rome with the Colosseum, or a lush Mediterranean garden city with little modern development.
Population664,046Wikidata: 30,969
Coordinates37.98°N, 23.73°E
Elevation74 m
Area39 km²
Time zoneEurope/AthensUTC+2
Solar noon12:25clock runs 0.4 h ahead of the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Athens and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Mataura, French Polynesia — 1,750 km from the exact antipodal point.
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| Istanbul | TR | 560 km |
| Pristina | XK | 565 km |
| Podgorica | ME | 624 km |
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- Seoul KR
- Sofia BG
- Tbilisi GE
- Tirana AL
- Warsaw PL
- Washington US
- Xi’an CN
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