Rebecca Ann Hughes covers travel, culture and food in Europe. The Acropolis is consistently inundated with tourists, with as many as 23,000 visitors clogging up ... [+] the complex on some days.

A group of tourists pose at the Parthenon circa 1860. Public Domain. This is thought to be one of the earliest known photographs capturing a group of tourists on Athens’s Acropolis, taken around the ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...