In 478 the walls erected around Athens enclosed an area of 3.5 square kilometers, including the Piraeus, or harbor district. The full population of the city was over 140,000, but only 40,000 of ...

She first guided me around the front yard ... traces of the site’s history. Athens has always been surrounded by walls, some of which extended down to Piraeus, a port southwest of the city.

THE GRAFFITI ON the walls ... Athens. Barely any of the silver steel on the carriages are visible as a kind of burst of technicolour zips through the suburbs of the city. In this corner of Piraeus ...

The naval bases did eventually fall, however. Around 404 BC, Sparta and other Greek states defeated Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War and tore down its naval fortifications in Piraeus.

The city of Piraeus, just outside Athens, is becoming a haven for galleries ... jutted out from a rough concrete wall. Beyond a hallway was an installation consisting of a false brick facade ...