3D print the Acropolis of Athens
A free, printable model of the Acropolis of Athens and the paths, green patches and buildings around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Acropolis of Athens
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel on a flat-topped rock in the city of Athens, Greece, rising to an elevation of 150 m (490 ft), measured from sea level. The summit covers about 3 ha (7.4 acres). People were living on the hill by the 4th millennium BC, and the site holds the remains of several ancient buildings, the best known being the Parthenon. The word acropolis comes from Greek terms for highest point and city, and Greece has many other acropoleis.
In the fifth century BC, Pericles coordinated a building program that produced the Parthenon and the Propylaea, along with the Erechtheion and the small Temple of Athena Nike. The Propylaea is a grand gateway at the hill's western end, with Doric columns of Pentelic marble, and Mnesicles began it in 437 BC. The Erechtheion, built between 421 and 406 BC on very uneven ground, has a porch held up by huge female figures called caryatids.
The Parthenon and other buildings were seriously damaged in 1687, when Venetian forces besieged Athens during the Morean War. The Turkish rulers were storing gunpowder in the Parthenon, and a Venetian bombardment set it off. In ancient times the hill was also known as Cecropia, after Cecrops, the supposed first Athenian king. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 9 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 11 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 14 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- A ring of slender columns
- The temple is wrapped in rows of thin columns. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps every column, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- Open to the sky
- The model has no roof, so the inner chamber and its walls are visible from above. A bigger print size shows them more clearly, and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the stepped platform crisp.
- One piece with the ground
- The Acropolis of Athens is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Acropolis of Athens takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Acropolis of Athens is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there an Acropolis of Athens STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Acropolis of Athens grows with the print: about 9 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
