Athens - the city with the most glorious history in the world
Athens - the city with the most glorious history in the world, a city loved by gods and people, a magic city where the ancient culture is kept. The most important civilizations of the ancient world prospered in Athens and live today through tales and buildings who hold out heroic against unforgiving time.
One of the most special destination for people interested of history is Athens - unique because of the Parthenon and the other buildings from the Acropolis who will transpose the visitors in an era long faded.
Above Athens on the Acropolis hill called the holy rock, you can admire the Parthenon, the most important and known monument of the old Hellenic civilization, the symbol of Greece. It was dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos - the goddess of wisdom, of arts and of war in the Greek mythology.
Between the museums of Athens are The National Museum of Archeology which contains the biggest collection of Greek art, The Byzantine Museum which will offer you a image of the Athenian religion through icons and religious relicts, The Benaki Museum with his collection of treasures from all historical periods including jewelry, costumes and two paintings of El Greco, The Goulandris Museum with a unique collection of white marble statues and the Acropolis Museum.
Other sights of major importance are: The Herodotus Atticus Theatre , The Dionysus Theatre, The Omonia Square, The Syntagma Square where the parliament building is and where you will meet soldiers dressed in traditional festivity clothes typical for the military in Greek, The National Library, Adrian's Library, The Adrian Gate, The Poseidon Temple who had at the beginning 34 columns but only 15 survived over time, Temple of Olympian Zeus, The Hephaistos Temple.
Near the Syntagma Square is Athens Central Park where you can rest under the shadow of palms and admire the monuments of great philosophers like Euripides, Sophocles or Achilles.
How is Athens? To include all the beauty that it offers, Athens seems to be a goddess whit white chest of sand, exotic body, green eyes and the melancholy of years passing by in blue looks, a goddess that watches over the kingdom with winding streets who are keeping worlds that have gone so much time ago and still come up and live in the eyes of every tourist. Athens is the city that revives from it's own ashes.
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