Acropolis (Greek: Ακρόπολη)[2] is a station on Athens MetroLine 2. The station serves Plaka, Koukaki and Makrygianni.
The station is located under Makrygianni street in the Makrygianni neighbourhood of Athens. It is located on the east side of the Acropolis Museum and south of Dionysiou Areopagitou Street.
The station appeared in the original Athens Metro plan which was funded in 1991 and when construction began it was to be named Olympieion after the Temple of Olympian Zeus. During construction the name was changed to its current name. The station opened on 15 November 2000 along with the Syntagma-Dafni extension, 10 months after the first section of the system opened.[1] In 2025, the station's name in English was changed from the transliteration 'Akropoli' to Acropolis.
The station can be accessed by three ground-level entrances. Two are located on the eastern wall of the Acropolis Museum, one of which is elevator-only, while the third entrance is located on the other side of Makrygianni Str., at the finishing point of Athanasiou Diakou Str. Both entrances lead to the concourse level, which is decorated with antiquities. A big diagonal escalator leads from the concourse level to an intermediate level from which other escalators lead to the platforms. Both the concourse and intermediate levels' walls are covered with polished marble tiles. The platforms' walls are decorated with a curved-plastic-panel pattern, the same that can be found at Line 2's Omonoia and Panepistimio and Line 3's Syntagma and Ambelokipi stations. Parts of the platforms are covered by posters of Melina Merkouri and reproductions of the Elgin Marbles of Parthenon. The station is among the deepest of the system and is one of the very few that have three underground levels.
駅のいずれかの出口から200メートル以内にあるバス停のみを掲載しています。特別バス路線は含まれていません。
2020年3月4日の夜、約30人のグループが駅に侵入し、抗議の意思表示として駅の壁や彫刻にスプレーで落書きをし、券売機を破壊した。壁に書かれたメッセージには「肉ではなく警官を食べろ」「全刑務所に火をつけろ」「性差別主義者を殴れ」などがあった。グループは通りかかった電車に乗り込んで逃走しようとしたが、警察が到着するまで運転手は降りることを拒否した。公務執行妨害、器物損壊、家庭内騒乱の容疑で合計43人が逮捕された。[ 3 ]