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Walking back to the center of the plateau you’ll pass scant remains of the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia founded in the fourth century b.c., but your eyes will be drawn to the immense structure of the Parthenon, which dominates today’s Acropolis site.
. The Opry succeeds where the Arch and Parthenon fail because it is not merely a tourist attraction but a vibrant part of the city's life, with a genuine, if regrettable, purpose-as a performance space for country music-while these latter two are self-conscious attempts to construct a symbol.
To the north of the Parthenon stand the graceful statues of the Porch of the Caryatids, which adorn the southern façade of the Erechtheíon.
The resources of the treasury of the Delian League were used — among other things — to build the Parthenon and other monuments that still adorn the Acropolis today.
It was planned in the 1820s as a symbol of Scottish national pride and designed as a mini-Parthenon, in deference to the neoclassical style popular at the time.