An ancient Greek Temple, Nicky Apteros is located on the Athenian Acropolis. It is also called the temple of Athena Niki. In Greek "Nike" means victory, and Athena is the goddess of victory in war and wisdom.

Temple is the first ionic temple on the Acropolis and is located on a steep hill to the right of the propylaeum (main entrance). Here the locals worshipped the goddess in hope of a positive outcome in the long war with the Spartans and their allies (the Peloponnesian war).

Unlike the Acropolis, where the walls of the sanctuary could be reached only through the Propylaea, the sanctuary Nick was opened. The temple was built between 427 and 424 BC, the famous Greek architect Kallikrates on the site of an ancient temple of Athena that was destroyed by the Persians in 480 BC, the Construction is a amphiprostyle is a type of ancient Greek temple on the front and rear facades of which are four columns in one row. The stylobate of the temple has three steps. The friezes are decorated with sculptural reliefs depicting Athena, Zeus, Poseidon and scenes of military battles. Surviving fragments of the sculptural frieze on display in the Acropolis Museum and the British Museum, the temple today secured copies.

Like most buildings of the Acropolis, the Temple of Nicky Apteros built from intelegentnogo marble. After completion of the work, about the year 410 B. C., the temple was surrounded by a parapet to protect people from falling off steep cliffs. From the outside it was decorated with bas-reliefs depicting Nicky.

Inside the temple there was a statue of the goddess Nike. In one hand the statue was a helmet (symbol of war), and in the other a pomegranate (symbol of fertility). Usually the Greeks depicted the winged goddess, but this statue of the wings was not. This was done on purpose to win never left the city. Hence the name of the temple Nicky Apteros (wingless victory).

The temple Nicky Apteros, thanks to the restoration, sufficiently well preserved to our days and is a beautiful monument of classical Greek art.