In Athens, Greece, the ruins of Aristotle’s Lyceum (his philosophy school) — a 2,300-year-old complex uncovered by archaeologists in 1996 — was opened to the public on June 4, 2014.
The area is now an 11,500-square-meter park, where visitors can walk among hypocaust chambers (a heating system), the baths and the ephebeum (teaching room), conisterium (where athletes powdered their bodies), elaeothesium (where athletes oiled their bodies) and library. Signs explain these.
Open 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Admission is free. Visitors can enter the park on Rigillis Street or at the point of entrance next to the Sarogleio Building on Vas. Sofias Avenue.
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