athens facts Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/athens-facts Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:29:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 ATHENS http://toursmaps.com/athens.html http://toursmaps.com/athens.html#respond Tue, 22 Nov 2016 18:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=225959 ATHENS Ancient ruins sit quietly amid hectic modem streets as tacit testaments to Athens’s rich history, while the Acropolis looms larger than life, a perpetual reminder of ancient glory. Byzantine churches recall an era of foreign invaders, when the city was ruled from Macedonia, Rome, and Constantinople. But the packs of mopeds in PI. Syndagma prove that Athens refuses to become a museum over the past two centuries, democracy has revived the city in a wave of madcap construction. The 2004 Olympic Games, to be held in Athens, promises an array of modem landmarks to stand proudly alongside the city’s

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