Lycabettus Hill, Athens, Greece

Lycabetus Mountain in the center of Athens, the capital of Greece. Height - 263 meters above sea level. Access to the hill is provided by a funicular railway built in 1965 or by a serpentine staircase.
Mount Lycabettus
Church
Previously, the hill was called Agios Yeoryos, Mount of St. George because of the Byzantine church of the same name (St. George) located on the top of the hill. Its construction (XI-XII centuries) was associated with the strengthening of the power of Byzantium and Christianity as a result of the Balkan military campaigns of Emperor Vasily II. The old Athenians called it the Church of St. Sidereus. The building was destroyed by fire in 1930 and rebuilt in 1931. On the western slope is the chapel of Agios Isidoros. (Saint Isidore). A road leads to the open theater. Underground structures were built on the hill, which housed the air defense headquarters during the Italo-Greek War (1940-1941). The hill is covered with pine trees, formerly olive trees.
Linguists believe that the name is ancient. Hesychius of Alexandria writes that the name comes from the Greek “grove in which wolves live” and comes from the wolves that lived in large numbers on the hills of Anhesma, modern Turkish hills or Turkovunia. According to another version, from the expression, the onset of darkness, that is, twilight.
According to legend, Athena went from her sanctuary on the Acropolis to Pallene to bring from there a huge stone and install it on the Acropolis as a fortress. The crow brought her news that the daughters of Kekrops had broken their oath and opened the box with Erichthonium. In anger, Athena threw a stone and Lycabettos Hill was formed in this place.
Due to its steep shape, the hill was uninhabited. Used as a quarry. In the Kolonaki area there was a large water reservoir, the entrance to which survived until the 18th century. To the south of the hill there was an aqueduct, built under Emperor Hadrian (117-138) and destroyed in the 13th century.

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