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Phillipappos Hill where the Venetian canons bombarded the Parthenon which was held by the Turks. The shot that that blew up the building was a lucky one. When the Parthenon was intact it would have been a pretty safe place to store explosives. It must have been quite a spectacle when it blew up. It burned for days and they are still finding pieces of it scattered around Athens.

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