Lycabettus is the tallest hill of Athens and according to the mythological tradition it was made out of a rock that fell from the hands of Godess Athena, while she was moving him to fortify the Aropolis.
Its name derives from two greek words, that together give a meaning of "where the sun comes out from during sunrise". The older name of the Lycabettus hill was Anchesmos, which meant mastoid hill and took its modern name in 1832.
At the beginning there used to be quarries on the slopes, that have left their wounds till today. The forestation of Lycabettus, begang in 1880 with many difficulties and was completed in 1915 when Queen Sophia and the Philodassiki Society (eco-friendly) took the iniciative.
The small church of Agios Georgios on the top of the hill is dated since the 18th century. In 1925 there was a gun emplacement in the south side of the hill and in 1961 began the construction of the teleferik.
In 1964 the Lycabettus theatre was built after an iniciative from the actress Anna Synodinou.