Greece Travel Guía

Modern Athens was constructed only after 1834, when this made the capital of Greece once again independent to itself. Otto I, the first king of Hellenes (1832-62), reconstructed most of the city, and the first modern Olympic Games were supported there in 1896. The population grew quickly in the year 1920, when Greek refugees came from Turkey. The inhabitants of the city suffered extreme difficulties during the German occupation (1941-44) in the second World war, but the city got damaged without being able to avoid it with the war and with the civil problems of the country of 1944-50. In the year 1960 and year 1970, the XIXth century hizieron countless neoclassic constructions that were knocked down to do the way for the infamous apartment blocks concrete that characterize most of the city today. The city also day pupil was extended by the imprudent development, in particular towards the west, as its population grew for absorbing persons that he looks for work of the provinces. With the beginning of the car, the civil servants forced the public services of transport of the city, without foreseeing the clogging of traffic and the poisonous fog that the threat the city before the year 1980. The certain areas of the center of city, like the Pláka and districts Thissio, they preserved its charming XIXth century architecture, but they fell down in the decay.

Recently in the year 1980 and the year 1990 of initial, the reality of the city drove to a brutal awakening between local and national officials, and one paired with the new opposing prosperity of the country enormous scale projects they began to regenerate slowly the city and as much as possible they undo the dammages of recent decades. On the course of next 15 years, million euros invested in new projects of infrastructure of transport, the restoration of surviving, neoclassic buildings, the aburgesamiento of the historical center of the city, and the renewal of ancient industrial zones and the coast of the city. The restoration of neoclassic charming constructions in the historical center of the city has been accompanied by the attractive constructions of modern postcards of the district; both of which it has begun to improve the esthetic extract of the city. Athens today one day develops, forging a new identity for the XXIst century, and gradually compensating the dammages of the XXth.