Sentences with acropolis
a·crop·o·lis
A a - There are remains of an acropolis located on a hillside with magnificent views.
- To the side of Pigadia is a rocky hill where the Minoan acropolis of Karpathos was built in ancient times.
- An acropolis protected by stone walls lay at the centre.
- On the acropolis is a smaller walled-in area where a ruined Byzantine chapel lies over the foundations of the Temple of Athena.
- The city's monuments date mostly from the Hellenistic period and include the acropolis, an Apollo temple and an agora.
- We drive to Bergama, 45 minutes away, past women working side by side in the fields, and wind up steep streets to the acropolis high above the noisy town.
- Last year a stylish new auditorium was opened alongside this Hellenic-style acropolis, one of the finest neo-classical houses in the country.
- Certainly, the mansion's floodlights isolate it as a miniature acropolis between soaring office blocks.