Metro and the Agora of Athens with Glimpse of the Acropolis

Athens’ metro runs briefly above ground right beside the Ancient Agora, close enough that a train passing through the shot lines up almost perfectly with the Acropolis rising on the hill behind it, two completely different eras of the city sharing the same frame for a few seconds. We waited for a train more than once to get the timing right. It is one of the few places where three thousand years of Athens compress into a single, ordinary commute.