Mount Lycabettus

Why go

Mount Lycabettus is the hill in central Athens that This is Athens, the city's official guide, gives as 277 metres high; the guide says it was used as a quarry, with several of the city's neoclassical buildings built from its stone, and that visitors go up by the funicular, which it calls a cable car, or on foot by the stairs. The same guide describes the whitewashed 18th-century church of Agios Georgios on the hill, beside the cell of a 19th-century hermit who lived atop the hill, and the Church of Saint Isidore built inside a cave on its south-west side. This record is the hill; the funicular and the Lycabettus Theatre are separate subjects. The condition of the paths, any closing of the summit area and the funicular's operation are not stated here.