Kolonaki starts at the edge of the green space in the foreground and works its way downhill. The National Palace and Gardens are at the green space in the middle of the picture at the left edge. The haze is typical of many Athenian days, a light smog. Along the centre of the basin rise a series of hills including the 156m high Acropolis. The Athens schists actually include sandstones, slates, marls, phyllites, cherts and masses of brecciated or crystalline limestone.
Limestones crown the hills of the town.
The ages are Triassic, Jurassic or Cretaceous. The limestone caprock of the Acropolis is of upper Cretaceous age. If you're planning on living in Athens, bring lots of money. It is like any big expensive city, but the inflation rate in Greece makes it more expensive. Buying non-food items in Greece will cost from 1.5 to 3 times the base North American price.