In 2023, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3” shot its strolling scenes in the alleys of the Plaka quarter, below the Acropolis.
On 26 September 1687, a Venetian shell hit the Ottoman powder store in the Parthenon; the blast tore off the roof and some twenty columns.
Below the Acropolis, Anafiotika hides a whitewashed Cycladic village built in the 1800s by masons from the island of Anafi.