A FASNTASTIC three-day outdoor rock music event is takes place each year during the summer, you will find out that five to six groups and artists perform each day on three color-coded stages, each devoted to a different style of music, red for metal, green for rock, and the blue stage devoted to dance. Increasingly popular, it also features trance, industrial, and other cutting-edge music attracting primarily teen Greeks and their foreign counterparts.
Since 1889, this amazing almost statuesque building houses one of the world's most famous museum. Among the most popular exhibits is the 3,600 year old gold mask of Agamemnon. There is even an ancient device from the first century BC, which is considered to be the world's oldest computer. A section of the museum also contains exhibits from Ancient Egypt. Definetly a place of culture and knowledge that you can't miss if you are traveling to Greece
Cape Sounion are the ruins of an ancient temple built on a cliff-top offer spectacular views of the Aegean Sea and a picture perfect sunset. The temple was dedicated to Poseidon, god of the sea. It can be reached in an hour from Athens, by following a scenic route along the Apollo Coast. There are excellent beaches along the road to Sounion, so don't forget to pack your bathing suit.
The same place where Socrates was engaging people in long, philosophical discussions 2500 years ago. This one of a kind archaeological park served as the city's marketplace from the 6th century BC to the 6th century AD. Scattered throughout the Agora are statues and ruins of numerous buildings, the most interesting of which is the well-preserved Temple of Hephaistos or Thission, built in the 5th century BC. Many archaeological finds are on display inside the reconstructed Stoa Attalou, an impressive building from the 2nd century BC.
This impressive temple was dedicated to the worship of Zeus. Its perimeter included 104 Corinthian columns, with additional columns inside the building were you can see a huge gold and ivory statue of Zeus. After the temple's destruction by invaders in the 4th century AD, the marble from the ruins started to disappear as it was being reused as building material for newer constructions. This days, sadly only some of the temple's columns can be seen. Their immense height is a testimony to the amazing size of this sanctuary.
An amazing religious complex, the Acropolis is formed by several temples, which were built by the world's first democracy during the 5th century BC. The most famous building of all is the Parthenon, a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. The Parthenon became the paragon of classical Greek architecture, and has been seriously injured over the years. A small museum features an impressive collection of ancient Greek sculptures.
Greece is a country unique of beauty that has everything
to
offer to the visitor who wants to make tourism: beautiful and variable Landscapes some of the most beautiful beaches in the world, picturesque whitepainted
or stone-built villages, passionate culture and traditions and, a heavy history, archeology and mythology heritage.
It is a peninsular and mountainous country situated in southern Europe,
and it is bordered by the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea and the
Mediterranean Sea. It has borders with Albania, Turkey, Bulgaria and
the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and it is the only country of
the EU that doesn’t have any border with the other members.
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