Almost everybody knows about the Parthenon, the Temple of Venus Nike and the Erechtheion on the Acropolis in Athens.
But a walk around the area where the tourist buses park reveals some other architectural and natural delights, including a church and the (probably bogus) prison of Socrates.
Here are some pictures of that area, and of other parts of modern Athens and the adjacent port city of Piraeus taken during a recent cruise holiday.
And a bonus picture of some bloke at the Parthenon:
