The Greek flag flies from the Acropolis at a spot where two acts of resistance unfolded within a month in 1941.

When the Nazis invaded Athens on 27 April, they ordered the Greek soldier on duty to lower the flag and raise the swastika. Konstantinos Koukidis wrapped himself in the blue and white stripes and jumped to his death rather than comply. A modest memorial in Plaka marks his sacrifice.

A month later, two nineteen-year-olds, Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas, climbed the rock in darkness, tore down the Nazi flag and hurled it into the void. The Germans discovered its absence only at dawn. Charles de Gaulle later called Glezos 'the first partisan of Europe.' He lived until 2020, politically active to the end.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours trace these stories of wartime Athens, using the flag as a starting point to explain the city's occupation, resistance and the decades that followed.