Lindos

This guide to Lindos traces the small temple to Athena that made this clifftop famous across the ancient world, and the towering Hellenistic stoa built around it two centuries later to make pilgrims feel small before they reached the shrine. It follows a preservation mistake made by Italian restorers in the 1930s, who tried to save the ancient stone with reinforced concrete, and the Greek archaeologists who have spent decades since 1985 slowly undoing that fix. Look closely at the columns as you pass beneath them, and see if you can spot where old stone gives way to new.