Ruggero Ullan's User Profile - Atlas Obscura

Ruggero Ullan

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Syntagma Square Metro Station

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

Agia Dynamis

This small 16th-century church in Athens is almost entirely surrounded by a modern building.

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Little Metropolis Church

This gem is often wrongly overshadowed by the larger, newer Metropolis church in Athens.

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Magic Sphere of Helios

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

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Fallen Aviators Monument

This striking sculpture of Icarus honors Greece's fallen flyers.

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Korai 4

Scars of this building's past life as a violent prison still cover its walls.

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Old Madrasa of Athens

The ruined doorway is a portal to the building's turbulent and torturous past.

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Fethiye Mosque

This historic structure has been used as a mosque, a barracks, a prison, a school, and a bakery.

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Tower of the Winds

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

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St. John Around the Column

There are many Byzantine-era churches still standing in Athens, but this is the only one with a 2,500-year-old column rising through its roof.

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Pittaki Street

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

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Tzistarakis Mosque

Legend says it was constructed with the destroyed pillar of an ancient Greek Temple.

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The Athenian Agora

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

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Ricetto of Candelo

A perfectly preserved example of a fortified Medieval ricetto.

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Ötzi the Iceman

Europe’s oldest natural human mummy.

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Earth Pyramids of Platten

These delicate sand pyramids look like naturally occurring gothic spires.

Pyramidenkogel Observation Tower

This spire on an Austrian mountain is wrapped around a long spiral slide and has the world's tallest wooden observation deck.

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Klagenfurt, Austria

Lindwurmbrunnen

The medieval "dragon" on an Austrian city's coat-of-arms comes to life in a fountain.

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Ptuj Castle's Collection of Traditional Carnival Masks

The costumes depict the Kurent, the star character of the annual Kurentovanje festival.

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Styrian Armoury

The world's largest historic armory was established by independent citizens to defend themselves from the wars of larger forces.

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Burgruine Gösting (Gösting Castle Ruins)

The shell of a medieval fortress offers commanding views of the area it once protected.

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Fairytale Grotto Line

Fantastic stories on a miniature railroad.

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The Stairs of Reconciliation

Double spiral staircases are not unheard of, but they are very rare.

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Murinsel

Resting in the middle of an Austrian river, this sci-fi "island" lets people cross in neon style.

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