Greece Travel Guía

Athens is the capital of Greece that spreads across the average vale of the Ática, often mentioned like the Cuenca of Ática, that in turn the Assembly Penteli is adjacent to Assembly surrounded with Aegaleo in the west, the Assembly Parnitha in the north, in the North-East, the Assembly Hymettus in the East, and the Gulf Saronic in the Southwest. Athens is the emblem of freedom, art, and the democracy in the conscience of the civilized world.

Athens goes out of the name of the goddess Atenea, the goddess of knowledge and knowledge. The main sign of Athens is the Acropolis, which handles the city and on which they place the relics of the Parthenon, the propylaea, and the Erechtheum. Occupying the part of the south of Athens, the Acropolis is surrounded with a ring and for other main signs of the ancient city the Pnyx, where the assemblies of the citizens were supported, the Areopagus; Theseum de Hephaesteum, a Dorian well preserved temple of the 5th century aC. The old men Agora and the Roman forum; the temple of Zeus or Olympieum; Dionysius's theater (the oldest in Greece); and Odeum de Herodes Atticus. Athens exhibits a miscellany that disconcerts the architectural styles from beyond the centuries and under many influences, it doing a fascinating place to visit.

Athens is an active and cosmopolitan metropolis, a modern big city known as the place of birth of democracy and with a population of 3.7 million residents approximately. It is of several ways the place of birth of Classic Greece, and therefore of Western civilization, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during 5th and 4th centuries aC on the rest of European well-known Continent of that time.

Athens the metropolitan area is the heart of economic, financial, industrial life, cultural and politics in Greece, which contains the port of Piraiévs and numerous suburbs, it justifies most of industrial exit. The manufacture contains the silk, the wool, and the cotton textile, machines hardware, steel, ships, products of feeding, drinks, chemical substances, ceramics, bookform materials, and carpets. Major Athens is a transport bucket, served by train lines, main ways, air lines, and vessels oceangoing. There is an enormous tourist industry. The water for the city is given by the deposit Marathón (1931), formed by a made prey of marble Pentelic. The city also punctually does a main business heart to itself in the European Union. The city adapted has a ground the 39 kilometers area ² while the urban sprawl of Athens crosses 412 kilometers ².

The Visitors today perhaps startled to find a city not at all like them they had imagined. An enormous, crushing proportion of the city and its most nearby suburbs it is subject to the urban bad planning and the architecture of the year 1970 is missing of imagination. There are few green spaces in the central areas of the city, and the urban one they lie down (they spread) it does an injustice to the glorious past of the city.