ABSTRACT
Contrary to the plans predicting a dispersion of the monumental buildings within the new city of Athens, those finally created are to be found along an axis seeming to ignore it. The explanation of that fact lies in the existence of a special demand in the process of creating the reborn city of Athens after Independence. Apart from creating a modern European capital, like the others, an additional requirement emerged here: according to the city’s neo-classicist creators, its monumental buildings should be visually related to the antiquities which were also their stylistic prototypes and even the reason Athens became capital.
