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This is the source of all the information concerning the
educational & entertaining tour that will held after the end of
WeGrow 2013 Conference on the 30th 31stof October.
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On the 1rst day of the study tour organized under
WeGrow13, the delegates will have the unique opportunity to
walk where the ancient Greeks were walking and see what they
were seeing, but at the same time they will have the change to get
a glimpse of how modern Athens looks like.
Our exploration of mystical and intriguing past and present of the
city of Athens will begin at 10:00 the hostel that the delegates are
going to spend the night, situated in the heart of Athens.
Firstly, lets go through the agenda and afterwards we are
going to present all the sights that we are going to visit. Our
schedule included long strolls at the Athenian streets because we
believe that the best way to see a city is by walking.
So put your comfortable shoes on and let everything else to us!
8:00 9:00 Travel To Site
09:00 10:00 Breakfast
10:30 11:00 Walk to National Archeological Museum
11:00 12:30 Visit National Archeological Museum
12:30 13:00 Walk to Acropolis through Monastiraki, Thiseio & Plaka
13:00 14:30 Visit Acropolis
15:00 15:30 Walk to Acropolis Museum, Visit Odeon of Herodes Atticus15:30 17:00 Visit Acropolis Museum & Lunch
17:00 18:00 Walk & Visit Hadrians Arc, Temple of Olympian Zeus &
Kallimarmaro Stadium
18:00 18:30 Walk to Greek Parliament & Monument of the Unknown
Soldier through Zappeion Megaron & National Garden
18:30 19:30 Greek Parliament & Suntagma Square & Dinner
19:30 20:00 Walk & Visit Athens University historical building
20:00 20:30 Return to the hostel22:00 Study Tour Day 1 Party
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The Acropolis of Athens or Citadel of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world.Although there are
many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as
The Acropolis without qualification. Acropolis = akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city.
The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock that rises 150 m (490 ft) above sea level in the city of Athens, with a surface
area of about 3 hectares. It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the first
Athenian king.The entrance to the Acropolis was a monumental gateway called the Propylaea. To the south of the
entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike. A bronze statue of Athena, sculpted by Phidias, originally stood at its
centre. At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos (Athena the Virgin).
East of the entrance and north of the Parthenon is the temple known as the Erechtheum.
South of the platform that forms the top of the Acropolis there are also the remains of an outdoor theatre called
Theatre of Dionysus.A few hundred metres away, there is the now partially reconstructed Theatre of Herodes
Atticus.
All the valuable ancient artifacts are situated in the New Acropolis Museum, which resides 300 meters on the
southeast of the Rock of the Acropolis, on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street.
Akropolis & New Akropolis Museum
The area of Plaka is one of the most attractive
districts of Athens. Under the slopes of the Acropolis
Plaka attracts all the visitors of Athens with itsneoclassical mansions and houses with roofs from red
tiles, its small winding roads with their steps,
balconies with bougainvilleas ,geraniums and
jasmines. Plaka is called many times in the Greek
literature as the neighbourhood of the Gods and that
because over Plaka dominates the sacred rock of the
Acropolis "the sacred rock of the gods" who made the
modern Athenians with the same humour like their
Ancient ancestors, to personalise the Olympian gods
having fun like them in Plaka with lots of Retsina wine
and Dance.
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The Zappeion Megaron of Athens, is designed
by the famous Danish architect Theophil Freiherr von
Hansen in 1878, the Zappeion Megaron is named after
Evangelos Zappas, a businessman from Epirus who
played a major role in starting the Zappian Olympic
Games, which laid the path for the modern Olympic
Games The Zappeion building is a tribute to this great
man who brought the Olympic Games back into the
modern world.
The Monument of the Unknown Soldier was
designed by the architect Emmanuel Lazaridis in 1930
and unveiled on the 25 of March 1932. The main
element of the monument is a large bas - relief
representing a dying Greek heavily armed soldier.
It is guarded 24 hours a day by two Evzoni (or
Tsoliades), members of the Presidential Guard , an
elite, specially chosen unit of the Greek Army.
The National Garden has small ponds, narrow
paths and tall trees which offer plenty of oxygen and
whose shade offers a welcoming place for people to
sit and relax. While walking down the many narrow
paths inside the garden you have the feeling that you
are in the countryside and not just a few feet awayfrom the center of Athens. This green oasis does not
only have a historically notable name, but also a
complex and interesting history.
Zappeion Megaron & National Garden
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The main building of the Academy is a neoclassical
building between Panepistimiou Street and
Akadimias Street in the centre of Athens. The
building was designed as part of an architectural
"trilogy" in 1859 by the Danish architect Theophil
Hansen, along with the University and the National
LibraryThe sculptures were undertaken by the
Greek Leonidas Drosis, while the murals and
paintings by the Austrian Christian Griepenkerl.
On 20 March 1887, the building was
delivered by Ziller to the Greek Prime Minister,
Charilaos Trikoupis. The building was used for
housing the Numismatic Museum in 1890, and in
1914 the Byzantine Museum and the State Archives.
Finally, in 1926, the building was handed over to the
newly-established Academy of Athens.
Athens University historical building
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On the 2nd day of the study tour organized under WeGrow
13an excursion at the beautiful area of Peloponnese will beorganized; allowing the delegates to leave behind the busy big
city life and what they learned at the conference, chill and hang
out with the AIESEC they met there.
At the same they will have the chance to visit well-known
breathtaking sights such as the Corinth Canal, Nafplion &
Epidaurus. Our busses will leave the hostel at 8 oclock (you
better get to bed early) in the morning in order to ensure that wewill have plenty of time to spend visiting our sublime spots.
But as we use to say first of all lets go through the agenda
and more info on the sights are coming up next. Again, dont
forget to wear comfortable shoes cause a bit of walking is
involved here too.
9:00 10:00 Travel To Corinth Canal
10:00 10:30 Visit Corinth Canal & Breakfast
10:30 11:15 Travel to Epidaurus11:15 - 13:30 Visit Epidaurus
13:30 14:00 Travel to Nafplio
14:00 16:00 Visit the Castle of Nafplio (Palamidi) & Lunch
16:00 17:30 Walk around Akronauplia
17:30 19:30 Free time at Naufplion
19:30 20:00 Get the buses to Athens
20:00 21:30 Return to Athens
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The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts
through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, The
builders dug the canal through the Isthmus at sea level. The Canal is 6.4 kilometres in length and 21.3 metres.
The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD. It
was completed in 1893 and it is now used mainly for tourist traffic.
In this modern town of the 10.000
population the whole beauty is seemed simple
painting. Nafplio there was the first capital town
of the younger Greece and of today of Nome
Argolida. It is 147 Km. away from Athens.
With the exit from Argos is beginning to form
towards your eyes the unique in whole the world
icon of the town with the castle - symbol to glass
on the water of the Gulf.
The most ancient town of the greek place, which
according to the mythology, was founded by him,
who first thought the idea of the organization of
the humans to towns, Thiseas, building theprehistoric town, Nafplia
Corinth Canal
Nafplion
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Epidaurus
Epidavros is the best preserved theatre n
the whole of Greece. It was the work of the architect
Polyklitos Junior (4th century B.C.), built of
limestone, it can seat 12,000 spectators.
Every summer it comes alive. Attending a
performance of ancient drama in this theater is
almost a mystical experience. Never to be forgotten.
At Epidaurus the actors dont need to shout or speak
loudly because the acoustics are so good that the
merest whisper can be heard in the last row.
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