The Pillars of Olympian Zeus are the ruins of the temple of Olympian Zeus which was the largest temple of antiquity and was dedicated to Zeus, the king of the Gods.

The Sanctuary of Olympian Zeus, is one of the most important and oldest sanctuaries of Athens and was founded according to the tradition that the traveler Pausanias was rescued by Deucalion, the progenitor of the Greeks, in honor of Zeus in exchange for his salvation after the flood.

The construction of the great temple started by Peisistratus the Younger in 515 BC. on the site of an older temple of the beginning of the 6th century, it reached the platform and was interrupted as we mentioned with the overthrow of the tyranny. The late-archaic temple was Porin, Doric style, of colossal dimensions. Some of its building materials were later used for the construction of the eastern arm of the Themistocleian wall. The site of the Olympia and Hadrian’s Gate, is one of the most important cultural and archaeological attractions not only of Athens but of Greece and still attracts the interest of every visitor to the capital.A walk here is a walk through the history and culture of Athens. The temple together with the ruins around it constitute an important historical relic managed by the Antiquities Tax Office of the Ministry of Culture.