Outdoor Pitstop
The story
Audio tour · Plato's Academy Archaeological Site
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You're standing at the Akademeia, the place where Plato started his famous school around 387 BC. The very word academy comes from here. You're about one and a half kilometres north of the Dipylon, the old city gate of Athens. In ancient times this spot lay outside the city walls.
Read and hear the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).
