The Acropolis evokes a sense of ecstasy in its beholders… but did it always? At New Year, when it represents the city, the country and the whole imagined reality of the nation, we can hardly picture the city without it. The same goes when Athens is covered in snow, or heralds a new century, or celebrates the full moon or a national anniversary. I found myself deep in an ocean of associations as I walked along Apostolou Pavlou Street, over the hills of Thiseio, observing the change in perspective of the Acropolis. Yes, in a handful of places you can still have a ‘sense of landscape’ in this immense city. But even the very notion of landscape is a modern one.