Acropolis is plateau consist of rocks at 156 m above sea level, and some ruins of ancient buildings which are used to do the temple became the center of Athens history. Acropolis now become historical evidence about the triumph of pride Athena around 2400 years ago. Acropolis was built 1300 bc actually a small, picturesque town, until the kingdom of Persia destroy it in the year 480 BC. A year later the Greek army defeated Persia and re-build the temples.
In the year 1834 Athens became the capital of Greece, King Otto set the Acropolis as a protected archaeological buildings. The building on the ancient Acropolis is the Parthenon in the field of political democracy as we know at the time this is one of the contributions from Hellenislic dynasty (650-30 BC) empire at the time of Ancient Greece, where civil rights for his opinion freely acknowledged. As a typical pattern of the city in the form of Ancient Greek city state, where there are open spaces for events marked with democracy and buildings for the State executive, legislative and judiciary, one of which is Acropolis. That is the tradition that Athens does not aim to militarism, that cities in the era of Ancient Greek often get attacks from the nations around it, particularly from Persia.
At the main complex consists of the Acropolis temples which form a panorama of the city, among other Erichteion, Parthenon, Nike and the Propylaea. Erichteion temple is a building that is still very new and beautiful as the previous building on the destruction of 480 BC as a result of war with the Persian, led Salamis. This temple built by the architect Menesicles between the years 421-405 BC and has a small size, it is not uniform, with a stratified ionic style column is located on the site, surrounded by forest and sacred burial ground.
Parthenon is a temple where the statue is very big, made of ivory and gold. Parthenon is a building which is very prominent and is the center of the Acropolis. Parthenon was built between 447-438 BC as the works of architects Ictimus and Callicrates and experts artist Phidias. Parthenon said building as the ‘perfection of the paper Doric temple ever built in’, a look with the perfect proportion of experts that produced by virtual-shop Athena. Nike is the smallest temple for Athena regarded as the temple of fortune for the city of Athens. Propylaea building is shaped gate mnesicless paper architect, but construction was not completed due to war with the nation Peloponnesia. Rubble-ruins of the building can still be seen up to now, but there are some buildings that actually have lost, among others; Pinacotheca (an art gallery), Dionysus Theater, Odeon (a music room of Herod Atticus) and the Stoa (a shelter and the colonnade of berpameran with Eumenes). Promachos statue of Pheidias a very large and made of bronze, and dominated the face of the city. Nowdays Acropolis is promote as one of the new 7 wonder of nature.