Greece Travel Guía

Athens perhaps has the biggest heredity of many years and impressive cultural of any city in Europe. Nevertheless, Athens not only is recognized by the world for its ancient culture, if not definitely also for its present culture. The culture has been a part of Athens and of Greece in general its main characteristic in the history. Athens has given to the world the most popular writers, poets, philosophers and orators and its cultural permanent long tradition continue until the present day. The museums maintain the old living history, while an enormous number of theaters, concert halls, galleries of exhibition, do the new cultural history. In Athens these two often go of the hand.

The city has a number of international groups of functioning and an enthusiasm continued for the arts. There is presented every year in Athens the Festival (June to September). This international main festival was initiated in 1955 and it combines the music, the modern and classic theater, and the contemporary and traditional dance. The idea to the shop window of the cultural achievements of cities about the continent was conceived by Melina Mercouri, a Greek actress. The places for the festival are Roman Odeon de Herodes Atticus, the theater outdoors on the Hill Lykavittós, the amphitheater Veákio in Piraeus and the amphitheater in Epidaurus. The earnings are available of the Hellenic Box office of Festival.

Music and Dance
Several pubs, principally in the Plaka, present music and demonstrations of dance in night. Most of demonstrations is designed for visitors, but they are cheered up and entertained. The most authentic Greek music in Athens consists in dhimotiká (traditional songs accompanied by the guitar, the clarinet and the violin) and rembetika (a species of blues Greek developed by refugees of the Asia Minor in the year 1920). The music with influences of the Middle East and Greek and the poetry treats with the lives of the poor person and strangers. The main band of the city is the Band of the State of Athens, whom there supports much of its functioning in Mégaron Mousikis Athenon (Athens the Concert hall), Leofóros Vassilissis Sofías. This modern place receives the classic ballet, events of musician of opera and outstanding figures, as well as conferences and exhibitions.

Dora Stratou Baila the Theater was created 35 years ago, for a ballet dancer and the enthusiasm of culture in the Greek people. From May until September in the evenings, it usually go with the tape of the traditional suit and dramatizes a spectacle of Greek exuberant song and dance in a theater outdoors on Filopáppou (Philopapps the Hill), opposite to the Acropolis. The Company of National classic Ballet also realizes in Olimpia the Theater.

Theater
The tragedies of esquilo, Sófocles and Euripedes, and the Aristófanes comedies symbolize the best moments of Greek and announced ancient theater the birth of Western drama. The initial presentations were supported in Théatro Dionysou (the Theater of Dionysos), on the slopes of the south of the Acropolis. Close, Odion Iródou Attikou (Odeon de Herodes Atticus) is a Roman theater from the second century, also acquaintance as the Herodeion. The auditorium is opened in general only during summer evenings for the Festival of Athens, this provides an impressive adjustment for the presentations of the music and the classic drama.

The exterior theater Lykavittós, on the Hill Lykavittós, presents a scale of presentations and concerts throughout the summer. The National theater of Greece comprises five groups of theater: the Central Theater (Kentriki Skini), the New Theater (Nea Skini) and the Experimental Theater, quite which is based on Agiou Konstantinou, as well as the Theater of Kotopouli Rey and Katina Paxinou the children's Theater, both are in Panepistimiou 48. Completely, there are about 50 theaters in Athens that works between October and May. Nevertheless, the visitors without the fluid Greek can be restricted to the English presentations of language of tourist companies.