Fyli, Greece Tourism

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Athens to this point) and the lonely monastery of Panayía ton Klistón. Higher up the valley is an ancient grotto sacred to the shepherd god Pan, the setting of Menander's comedy "Dyskolos". A few kilometers farther on the walls of the ancient fortress of Phyle can be seen on the left.

After the Peloponnesian War Athens built a ring of frontier fortresses designed to protect Attica against attack from the Megarid and Boeotia to the west. Beginning with the fortified town of Eleusis on the coast, this defensive system continued with the fort of Anakton and the town of Oinoe on Mt Kithairon (northwest of Eleusis) and then east via Phyle, Dekeleia and Aphidna to the coastal stronghold of Rhamnous.

In response to the construction of Anakton the city of Megara built a counter-fortification at Aigosthena, the most northerly point in its territory.