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For Winter Holidays? To Athens!

January 7, 2013 — Victor Tribunsky

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Summer vacation in Greece won’t make much surprise for anybody nowadays. Winter is quite a different story. If you’re consider yourself a big original, follow my tip and go to Athens for winter holidays.

The Goddess Athena, Athens, Greece

The ancient Parthenon on the Acropolis mount (the Athenian Acropolis) is floating above the city. There are quite a few cities in the whole world, able to compete with the capital of Greece on their notoriety and fame.

The Athenian Acropolis

I have never regretted of going to Athens for the Christmas holidays. The story of this city is lost to the ancient times and the lack of historical data is over and above filled in with an amazing in its inspiration and imagination Greek mythology.

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Athens Archaeological Museum: Pearl among Havos

November 25, 2011 — Victor Tribunsky

Athens is the city of great goodness, which causes many associations at the heart of every antique history admirer.

The Goddess Athena

It is the city, the state which scheduled the development path of all European civilization for many centuries forward. A great number of things, without which we can’t imagine our modern life, appeared exactly here first.

But Athens today is shabby, stagy and alarming city with empty eyes of dark windows and nailed-up doors, splattered with graffiti and overcrowded with “fair-faced” immigrants. Poverty and decadence are everywhere in spite of all efforts to dolly it up and decorate. Though, Athens is worth to be visited, one-time at least, to look…

not even at Parthenon, which still looks proudly at this messy bazaar around it.

The Turks made here ammunition store (!!) hoping, that Venetians will not shoot. But they did it!

The Parthenon of Athens

The British took out to the British Museum almost every piece. The Greeks require their heritage back – like, they were robbed!… But may be, you were rescued? You couldn’t even find your Holy City Delphi (did you try, at least?), as long as the French did it…

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