Greece, Parte I, bits of tradition, beauty and music
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The Greek National Anthem
Imagery and text : compiled from several Net sites
Conception and format : Delza Dias Ferreira [email protected]
Revision and English version : Flavio Musa de Freitas Guimarães
Musics : Nick Stoubis – Overture Melina Merkouri - Love theme from Phaedra
http://culturesandart.blogspot.com
Greece – Fokida - Delphi
The Center of the World
To the ancient Greeks, Delphi, with roots in Neolithic era (5000-3000 BC),
has been the mythical home of Gaia (Earth) and Chronos (Time). It was also identified as the “center of the earth”.
Column 450-330 B. C. photo by Aimilios
Petrou
1. Attica2. Central Greece – Continental3. Central Macedonia4. Crete5. East Macedonia and Thrace6. Epirus7. Ionean Islands8. North Aegean9. Peloponese10. South Aegean11. Thessaly12. West Greece13. West Macedonia
Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα ), officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country whose mainland and most of its islands are in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula.Ancient Greece is often referred to as "the cradle of Western civilization”. The first known Greek civilizations dates from 3000 B. C. Administratively, Greece consists of 13 peripheries subdivided into a total of 54 prefectures. There is also one autonomous area, Mount Athos (Agio Oros, "Holy Mountain"), in Macedonia Periphery.
Greece – Attica - Athens
Athens – parcial view with Acropolis and the Saronic Gulf.
Greece - Attica - Athens
The Acropolis and Lykavitos Hill - The Acropolis of Athens, so called
the "Sacred Rock“ of Athens, is the most important site of the city. The
first civilization remains on the Acropolis date from the Neolithic period.
Greece - Attica - Athens
Acropolis view
A caryatid is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place
of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head. The best-known examples are
those of the six figures of the Caryatid Porch of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens.
Greece – Attica - Athens - Acropolis
Greece – Attica - Athens
The Parthenon, an octostyle, perinteral Doric temple with Ionic architectural features, housed the chryselephantine statue of Athena
Parthenos sculpted by Phidias and dedicated in 439/438 BC.
Greece - Attica – Athens
Hermes bearing the child Dionysus, by Praxiteles. Parian marble, H. 2.15 m., Archaeological Museum of Ancient Olympia. From the German
excavations of the Heraion at Olympia, 1877.
Greece - Attica - Athens
The Odeion of Herodes Atticus - After hard rain, the audience stands still at Jeremy Irons' musical of Camille Saint-Saens' Le
Carnival des Animaux.
Greece - Attica - Athens
From the Parthenon: two sides of Athens
Greece - Attica - Athens
Past and Present - The left door is from the Propylaea of Acropolis
and the right one is from the University of Athens.
Greece - Attica - Athens
Modernity in Athens...
Greece - Attica - Athens
Syntagma square and the Parliament.
Greece - Attica - Athens
Changing of the Guard Evzones in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square.
Greece - Attica - Athens
The National Archaeological Museum is the largest museum in Greece and one of the world's great museums. With more than 20,000 exhibits, his collections provide a
panorama of Greek civilization from the beginnings of Prehistory to Late Antiquity.
Greece - Attica - Athens
The National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
Greece - Attica - Athens
“Clandestine School “ – painting by Gysis, Nicholas. After the fall of the Byzantine Empire, Greece came under Ottomans rule for 400 years; in
order to preserve the Greek culture and idiom, their children were educated in clandestine schools along 4 centuries.
Greece - Attica - Athens
The legendary and historic Grande Bretagne, Athens' first hotel. Located in Syntagma Square.
Stavros Melissinos - the Poet-Sandalmaker of Monastiraki
Greece - Attica - Athens
Greece - Attica - Athens
The Kalatrava bridge, at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens.
Greece - Attica - Athens
Athens Olympic Stadium
Greece - Attica - Athens
Street market in Koukaki – olives.
Greece - Attica - Athens
Cafe, bars and restaurants in Kolonaki, district of Athens
Greece - Attica - Athens
Greek dance
Greece - Attica - Athens
Melina Merkouri - Greek actress and Minister. In 1981 she was made Minister of Culture where her primary objective was to have the Parthenon marble returned to Athens from the British Museum.
When she passed in 1994 she was mourned by thousands of nationals as the "last Greek Goddess".
Greece - 1 Attica
Aegina port
Greece – 1 Attica
Kithira - natural window
Greece – 2 Central Greece
Parnassos – Amfikleia - An Easter day - The huge grill is called `lakos'. Each family in the neighborhood brings and
roasts its own lamb.
Greece – 2 Central Greece
Evia - Chalkis - This is the Monument for the Greek Resistance against the German and Italian occupation of
Greece during the 2nd World War.
Greece – 12 West Greece
Achaea - Mystras was a fortified town in Morea (the Peloponnesus), on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta.
Greece – 9 Peloponnese
Young sheperd with his flock.
Greece – 9 Peloponnese
Kapsia
Greece – 7 Ionian Islands
Corfu
Greece – 7 Ionian Islands
Corfu - the Achillion Palace
Greece – 7 Ionian Islands
Corfu - the Achillion Palace
Greece – 7 Ionian Islands
Kerkyra - Old town
Greece – 6
Epirus
Ioannina
Greece – 6
Epirus
Parga
Greece – 6 Epirus - Arta Bridge of Arachthos River - 3rd cent. B.C. -
reconstructed in 1612
It is the most famous bridge of Epirus and Greece in general. The relevant legend refers to the sacrifice of the master
builder's wife, which was necessary for the propping of the bridge.
Greece – 11 Thessaly
Kalambaka, between the rocks, and Meteora, one of seven world’s miracles. (in the picture, Meteora is at high right).
Greece – 11 Thessaly
Meteora - stairs to Monasteries
Greece – 11 Thessaly
Meteora monasteries
The End of Part I