Stoa of Attalos

The Stoa of Attalos (also in Latin form Attalus ) is a museum for purposes reconstructed Hellenistic Wandelhalle on the Athenian Agora.

The original building, King Attalos II of Pergamum in the second century BC built. The dimensions of the built of Pentelic marble and limestone Stoa be 115 × 20 meters. The outer colonnade of the ground floor consists of Doric, Ionic columns from the inside, a common combination for the building type. The first floor shows the outside and inside of Pergamum ionic columns. The building is very similar to the Stoa, the brother and predecessor of Attalus, Eumenes II, on the southern slope of the Acropolis had built.

The Stoa was destroyed by the Heruli in 267. Its ruins were part of a fortification wall. In the years 1952 to 1956, the building was reconstructed by the New York architectural firm W. Stuart Thompson & Phelps Barnum under the guidance of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, funded by a significant financial contribution John D. Rockefeller Jr. in the context of the Cold war built museum mainly shows findings that relate to the Athenian democracy.

Here the formal signing of the Accession Treaty of the EU enlargement to ten countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Cyprus) took place on 16 April 2003.