Μνημειώδες Αδριάνειο Οικοδόμημα - Πάνθεον - Adrianou 78

It is inconceivable and one can not get inside to see details. The spring months become green, nice as an image, but the ancient ones are lost in the vegetation.

Unable to access the interior. Permanently closed. The sign on Adrianou Street reads: The relics of the antiquities that are preserved in the present plot, belong to a monumental building of the time of the emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD). The building, at least 85 m long and 40 m wide, had the form of a large three-aisled basilica with a precursor on its east side. It is located about 50 meters east of the Roman Forum and the Library of Hadrian. It is based on the remains of late Hellenistic and early Roman buildings, along the south side of an ancient road. In the specific plot, at a height of four superimposed structures, part of the north wall of the building is maintained, from Piraeus Aktite, with a total length of 11.50 m and a thickness of 1.70 m, while at a distance of 7 m to the south a series of cruciform pillars is maintained. , which probably supported internal arches or domes. After its unveiling in 1968, the building was identified with the Common Sanctuary of the Gods, the Pantheon, mentioned by Pausanias among the buildings built by Hadrian in Athens. According to others, it is identified with the Panhellenic, a meeting place of the representatives of the city-states, a work of that of the same Roman emperor. In the 3rd c. A.D. the north side of the building was incorporated into the Late Roman wall. To this was added the time of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I (527-565 AD), a ornate marble gate and a fortification tower. Part of the tower is maintained at a height of 5 m. On the west wall of the adjacent to the east of the property. It also preserves the aforementioned fortification gate, as well as ruins of the post-Byzantine church of Panagia Krystalliotissa (17th century), in the basement of a building of the last century.