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Areopagus - Hill of Ares, is located near the Acropolis and was the courthouse and place of executions in ancient Greece.
This is where Paul gave his famous speech (Areopagus sermon) in which he tries to convince his listeners of the Christian faith (around 50 AD). He says that he saw statues in the city that refer to the "invisible God" who is God, speaks of God being in the soul of man, not in temples, and calls for repentance.

The hill was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image

Translation of the text on the sign:
(New American Standard Bible)
So Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I see that you are very religious in all respects. For while I was passing through and examining the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription, ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you. The God who made the world and everything that is in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might feel around for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His descendants.’ Therefore, since we are the descendants of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought. So having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now proclaiming to mankind that all people everywhere are to repent, because He has set a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed, having furnished proof to all people by raising Him from the dead