Monuments & statues in Greece
Detourmap maps 34 monuments & statues worth the detour in Greece — memorials, colossal statues, triumphal arches. The best known is Statue of Zeus at Olympia. All of them are listed below. Each has a photo and a Wikipedia article.
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Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Monuments & statues · 5th century BC · Iconic
One of The Seven Wonders of the World
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Colossus of Rhodes
Monuments & statues · 3rd century BC · Iconic
Statue of the Greek Titan Helios; one of the seven wonders of the ancient world
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Athena Promachos
Monuments & statues · 5th century BC · Notable
Ancient sculpture of Phidias in Athens Acropolis
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Hermes and the Infant Dionysus
Monuments & statues · 4th century BC · Notable
Sculpture by Praxiteles found at Olympia, Greece
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Moschophoros
Monuments & statues · 6th century BC · Notable
Ancient sculpture from the Acropolis of Athens
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Lion of Amphipolis
Monuments & statues · 4th century BC · Hidden gem
4th-century BC tomb sculpture in Amphipolis, Macedonia, northern Greece
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Peplos Kore
Monuments & statues · 6th century BC · Hidden gem
Ancient sculpture from the Acropolis of Athens
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Statue of Liberty, Mytilini
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Statue in Mytilene, Lesbos, Greece
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Group of Aphrodite, Pan and Eros
Monuments & statues · 1st century BC · Hidden gem
Hellenistic marble statues group, today at the National Archaeological Museum at Athens
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Blond Kouros's Head of the Acropolis
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Ancient sculpture in the Museum of Acropolis
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Hafiz Ahmed Aga Könyvtár
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Hafiz Ahmed Agha Library, Islamic monument in Rhodes city
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Aphrodite of Syracuse
Monuments & statues · 2nd century · Hidden gem
Graeco-Roman statue in the National Archaeological Museum Athens
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Antenor Kore
Monuments & statues · 6th century BC · Hidden gem
Ancient sculpture by Antenor from the Acropolis of Athens
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Athens
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Memorial to Greece's war dead, below the Parliament building
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Grave Circle A, Mycenae
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
16th-century BC royal cemetery in southern Greece
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Menorah in flames
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Holocaust memorial in Thessaloniki
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Fallschirmjäger memorial
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
German war memorial for German parachutists who fell during the ten-dayBattle of Crete in World War II
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Suda Bay War Cemetery
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery in Crete
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Mikra British Cemetery
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Cemetery in Kalamaria, Thessaloniki
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Throne Room, Knossos
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Chamber inside the palatial complex of Knossos, Crete, Greece
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Funerary naiskos of Aristonautes
Monuments & statues · 4th century BC · Hidden gem
Ancient Greek tomb
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Angelitos Athena
Monuments & statues · 5th century BC · Hidden gem
Ancient sculpture from the Acropolis of Athens
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Türbe of Oruç Paşa
Monuments & statues · Hidden gem
Building in Didymoteicho, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Doiran Memorial
Monuments & statues · 20th century · Hidden gem
Commonwealth War Graves Commission war memorial near Doirani, Greece
