The Acropolis served as the background for the tragic conclusion of a romance that shocked nineteenth-century Athens. Mary Weber, a German governess at the palace, fell in love with Michalis Mimikos, a Greek army surgeon. Unfortunately, Mary’s father refused her permission to marry her beloved. The young woman sent a letter to Mimikos asking him to meet her the next day, but she received no answer. When the time set in the letter passed (11 am), she grew desperate and went to the Acropolis. She spent some time staring at the beauty of the landscape and then fell to her death. When Mimikos learned what had happened, he rushed to the hospital, but it was too late. Unable to cope with her death, he committed suicide. The two young lovers could not be together in life, but they are joined forever in the end since they were buried next to each other in the First Cemetery of Athens.