Webcam Dionysos. Panorama
Dionysos is a small town in Greece. It is located at 459 meters above sea level, on the north slope of Pendelikon, 5 kilometers south of Agios Stephanos, 19 kilometers northeast of Eleftherios Venizelos airport and 18 kilometers northeast of the center of Athens, Omonias square. It is part of the community of the same name (dym) in the north of the peripheral unit of East Attica in the periphery of Attica. Population 5651 according to the census of 2011.
In Ancient Athens the area of Dionysos was the Attic deme of Icarius in the phylum of the Aegean, named after Icarius, an Athenian who lived during the reign of Pandion and who received from Dionysus the vine and wine. The site where the center of the demes was located was discovered in an excavation conducted in 1888 by the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. The demes was located on the northern slopes of Pendelicon, southeast of Dionysos and northwest of Rapendosa. A native of Icaria was Thespis, a contemporary of Solon, inventor and founder of the genre of tragedy.
The town was established at the end of the 19th century, when marble mining began in the quarry of the same name at Pendelicon. The quarry is in operation today. The annual capacity of the quarry is 5,000 cubic meters according to 2009 data.
