Penteli (Greek: Πεντέλη) is a village and a municipality in the North Athens regional unit, Attica, Greece.

The Penteli mountains were renowned in Classical Greece as well as in the Roman Empire as a source of "Pentelic" marble, notably used to build the Parthenon and the Tower of the Winds.

[5] During the Greek War of Independence, the French philhellene Sophie de Marbois-Lebrun, Duchess of Plaisance supported the revolutionary leaders.

When she settled in Greece in 1834, she bought large plots of land in Athens and on the Penteli mountain.

A wall painting monument of George Markou the Argus,[7] the great and prolific post-Byzantine ecclesiastic iconographer of the 18th century.