Athens Guia

Athens - introduction

Athens - the Greek capital represents an exceedingly lively and brisk metropolis well known for an uncountable number of world’s famous historical remains. Many of them may be seen from the Areopag – whereon towers the unique Acropolis with the Temple of Artemis – Parthenon.

Athens stretches along the central plain of the Attica Basin and is the eighth largest conurbation in Europe and with the population of nearly 4 million inhabitants; it represents the business, financial, industrial, political, and cultural centre of Greece. Once, the ancient Athens was a very powerful city-state (polis) as well as it used to be a centre for the arts and philosophy, home of famous Plato's Academia and Aristotle's Lyceum.

Athens was also the birthplace of giants such as Socrates or Sophocles and many other prominent personalities of the complete ancient world. It is the very cradle of the so-called “Western Civilization” and the birthplace of democracy.