Phyle Attractions
Phyle stands on a triangular plateau (alt. 683m/2,241ft) at the pass carrying the road from Athens to Tánagra in Boeotia, on the western slopes of Mt Párnis. The site had probably been occupied by an earlier fortress in which Thrasyboulos assembled his supporters in 403 B.C. for an attack on the Thirty Tyrants.
The western and southwestern parts of the fourth century fortress at Phyle (which was excavated by Skias in 1900) have collapsed into the gorge, but considerable stretches of the walls of dressed stone, with four towers and two gates, have been preserved to the level of the wall-walk. The stones, measuring 2.75m/9ft by 38cm/1ft 3in, stand between six and 20 courses high. At some later period the interior of the fortress was infilled to the height of the walls.
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