My Athens, Greece (1) - aerial view
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Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. It dominates the Attica region (county) and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years and its earliest human presence started somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennium BC.
It is also a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece. The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which actually constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire city, had a population of 664,046 (in 2011) within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 km2 (15.04 sq mi). Athens is also the southernmost capital on the European mainland and the warmest major city in Europe.
The heritage of the classical era is still evident in the city, represented by ancient, Roman and Byzantine monuments as well as a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history. Athens is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery, as well as a home to several museums and cultural institutions, such as the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities.
Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics, making it one of the few cities to have hosted the Olympics more than once.
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In the above photo you see the Acropolis hill and below it the Herod Atticus Odeon, which is an ancient Greek open air theatre still in use today. At the slopes of the Acropolis hill are two famous neighborhoods, Plaka and Monastiraki. I'll show you both of them in the next puzzles.
It is also a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece. The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which actually constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire city, had a population of 664,046 (in 2011) within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 km2 (15.04 sq mi). Athens is also the southernmost capital on the European mainland and the warmest major city in Europe.
The heritage of the classical era is still evident in the city, represented by ancient, Roman and Byzantine monuments as well as a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history. Athens is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites, the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery, as well as a home to several museums and cultural institutions, such as the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities.
Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics, making it one of the few cities to have hosted the Olympics more than once.
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In the above photo you see the Acropolis hill and below it the Herod Atticus Odeon, which is an ancient Greek open air theatre still in use today. At the slopes of the Acropolis hill are two famous neighborhoods, Plaka and Monastiraki. I'll show you both of them in the next puzzles.
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