David Ubiera,

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Located on a rocky hill of Greece lies one of the most significant

ancient city the Acropolis of Athens (Greek). The Acropolis is dedicated,
primarily, to the patron goddess, Athena. The Acropolis was not built by only
one empire it was built by several, from the Mycenaean era to the Ottoman
(History). These kingdoms helped to build the Acropolis but usually the
money came from wars. Being over two thousand years old, only remains of
the city are still intact, the others have been carried in to a museum. The
government of Greece is in charge of taking care of the remainings of the
city and the museum (World).

Most of the city was designed by Mnesicles. Not much is known about
Mnesicles but what we know is that he was a Greek architecture. One of
Mnesicles design is the entrance to the city the Propylaea. The Propylaea
was built of Pentelic marble, with some details of black Eleusian stone
(Mnesicles). The propylae consists of a central building with two sixcolumned Doric porticoes east and west and two Ionic colonnades in the
interior, framed at the north and south by two wings with porches in the
Doric order. The city is a compound of different buildings, each one build for
a different purpose, a different god and dedicated to a different person

(Acropolis). When the war of Peloponnesian out broke meant that the work
on the surfaces of the monument would never be completed.

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