Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)

This guide to the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens starts in 1970 on a private Greek island, where a woman was found dead of a barbiturate overdose, and the question of whether her husband, shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos, should have been charged in her death. It traces his tanker rivalry with Aristotle Onassis through the 1950s oil boom, and the tangled marriages linking both families. Decades later his foundation poured hundreds of millions of dollars into this site, once a horse-racing track and an Olympic parking lot. Best taken in from the Light House platform at the top of the hill.