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Athens Travel Destinations

editor — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 06:00:00 +0000

Athens Travel Destinations SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES In 776 BC, nearly three millennia ago, the first recorded Olympic Games were held in the olive-shrouded plains of Olympia on the Peloponnese. Two hundred ninety-three Olympiadas later, in AD 393, Roman rulers banned the practice in Greece, and the Games did not return to Athens again until 1896. In the summer of 2004, from August 13-29, 5.3 million spectators, along with 4 billion viewers across the globe, will watch the Olympic Games return to the land of their ancient birth. The city has been busy preparing for the return of the Games. The

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GREECE

editor — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:36:00 +0000

OFFICIAL NAME: HELLENIC REPUBLIC In the past Greece has attracted many visitors who were unwanted. It has been overrun and ruled at various times by the Persians, the Romans, and in modern times by the Turks. Today’s visitors are welcomed by the tens of thousands, welcomed to Athens and to dozens of places that ring of history Marathon, Thebes, Delphi and Sparta. Greece includes fourteen hundred volcanic islands, two hundred of which are inhabited and are searched out each summer by Northern Europeans and Americans for their climate, beauty, and particular lifestyle. In 1982, Greece had about six million visitors,

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