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First you fly 1000s of kilometers to Athens, climb up
the Acropolis at 35°C and then you find the
world-famous Parthenon still "under construction"
- isn´t that disappointing? *g*

Not really, you feel the history of the place,
maybe not as much as i always feel it in Jerusalem,
but it is there, and the views from up there on the
city of Athens are breathtaking.


This is one of the few places everybody should have seen in her/his life.

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The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena
built in the 5th century BC on the Acropolis of Athens.
It is the most important surviving building of
Classical Greece, generally considered to be the
culmination of the development of the Doric order. Its
decorative sculptures are considered one of the high
points of Greek art. The Parthenon is regarded as an
enduring symbol of ancient Greece and of Athenian
democracy, and is one of the world's greatest cultural
monuments. The Greek Ministry of Culture is currently
carrying out a program of restoration and reconstruction.

The Parthenon replaced an older temple of Athena,
called the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was
destroyed in the Persian invasion of 480 BC. Like most
Greek temples, the Parthenon was used as a treasury,
and for a time served as the treasury of the Delian
League, which later became the Athenian Empire. In the
6th century AD, the Parthenon was converted into a
Christian church dedicated to the Virgin. After the
Ottoman conquest, it was converted into a mosque in the
early 1460s. On September 28, 1687, an Ottoman
ammunition dump inside the building was ignited by
Venetian bombardment. The resulting explosion severely
damaged the Parthenon and its sculptures. In 1806,
Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin removed some of the
surviving sculptures, with Ottoman permission. These
sculptures, now known as the Elgin or Parthenon
Marbles, were sold in 1816 to the British Museum in
London, where they are now displayed. The Greek
government is committed to the return of the sculptures
to Greece, so far with no success.

[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenon]

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