• Eight carved wind gods circle the top of the tower, one per direction (Boreas faces north, Notus south), an easy spotting game
• Sundials and a water clock made the tower the city's public clock, with sundials outside and a clock inside fed by water from the Acropolis
• Monastiraki station nearby, about a 4-minute walk, and the Ancient Agora sits about 100 meters west, so the two pair up in one outing

The Roman Agora is the ruined market square Augustus paid for around 2,000 years ago, north of the Acropolis. Kids enter through the Gate of Athena Archegetis, a Doric marble gateway, and cross to the Tower of the Winds.

The octagonal tower stands 12 meters tall with a carved wind god on each side and eight sundials. It once held a water clock, and Roman public latrines stood beside it.