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
delzadfer@gmail.com
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”.

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.

1. Attica
2. Central Greece – Continental
3. Central Macedonia
4. Crete
5. East Macedonia and Thrace
6. Epirus
7. Ionean Islands
8. North Aegean
9. Peloponese
Column 450-330 B. C. 10. South Aegean
photo by Aimilios Petrou 11. Thessaly
12. West Greece
13. West Macedonia

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.


Acropolis view

Greece – Attica - Athens - Acropolis

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

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.


The Odeion of Herodes Atticus - After hard rain, the audience stands still at
Jeremy Irons' musical of Camille Saint-Saens' Le Carnival des Animaux.


From the Parthenon: two sides of Athens


Past and Present - The left door is from the Propylaea of Acropolis
and the right one is from the University of Athens.


Modernity in Athens...


Syntagma square and the Parliament.


Changing of the Guard Evzones in front of the
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Syntagma Square.


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.


The National Archaeological Museum of 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.


The legendary and historic Grande Bretagne, Athens' first hotel.
Located in Syntagma Square.


Stavros Melissinos - the Poet-Sandalmaker of Monastiraki


The Kalatrava bridge, at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens.


Athens Olympic Stadium


Street market in Koukaki – olives.


Cafe, bars and restaurants in Kolonaki, district of Athens


Greek dance


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


Corfu - the Achillion Palace


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).


Meteora - stairs to Monasteries


Meteora monasteries

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