The Hills Are Alive

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Among the seven hills of Athens, there are Latomia, the disused marble mine, Alepotripa, "the Fox's Hole," and Lykavittos, the hill of wolves. These three hills are neither nature reserves nor public parks with well-marked paths. They have no determined status or purpose, allowing other ways to wander and coexist to emerge. They rise up out of the city like islands, and yet they form a kind of underground part of it, a mine of secret and more or less mythological stories.