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Archaeologist and guide Michalis Giohalas leads a special tour through the sculpture garden of the First Cemetery of Athens, in collaboration with the This is Athens City Festival.

Beyond the “Sleeping Female Figure”
The memorial of Sofia Afentaki—widely known as the “Sleeping Female Figure” by Yannoulis Chalepas—is perhaps the most iconic sculpture in the cemetery. But it is far from the only one of artistic significance.

This alternative route leads visitors off the main thoroughfares and into quieter paths that reveal a lesser-known, yet equally remarkable, side of Athens’ open-air sculpture garden. Along the uphill lanes, we encounter mausoleums of celebrated dead, where mortals meet immortals—and grand aspirations for remembrance coexist with overwhelming silence.