Editing Athens (section)

=== Urban sculpture ===
[[File:The Old Parliament House - National Historical Museum - on March 1, 2019.jpg|thumb|The [[Old Parliament House, Athens|Old Parliament House]] is now home to the National History Museum. View from [[Stadiou Street]].]]

Across the city numerous statues or busts are to be found. Apart from the neoclassicals by [[Leonidas Drosis]] at the Academy of Athens (Plato, Socrates, Apollo and Athena), others in notable categories include the statue of [[Theseus]] by [[Georgios Fytalis]] at Thiseion; depictions of philhellenes such as [[Lord Byron]], [[George Canning]], and [[William Ewart Gladstone|William Gladstone]]; the equestrian statue of [[Theodoros Kolokotronis]] by [[Lazaros Sochos]] in front of the Old Parliament; statues of [[Ioannis Kapodistrias]], [[Rigas Feraios]] and [[Adamantios Korais]] at the university; of [[Evangelos Zappas]] and [[Konstantinos Zappas]] at the Zappeion; [[Ioannis Varvakis]] at the National Garden; the" Woodbreaker" by [[Dimitrios Filippotis]]; the equestrian statue of [[Alexandros Papagos]] in the Papagou district; and various busts of fighters of Greek independence at the [[Pedion tou Areos]]. A significant landmark is also the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma.