10 Untold Facts About Athens City

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10 Untold Facts About Athens City

1.Athens is the capital as well as the largest
city in Greece. It is also one of the oldest
cities in the world with the earliest inhabitants
dating back to around 3,400 years between the
11th and 7th millennium BC. For more travel
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2. Athens was an important city, an
important hub for arts, culture, learning,
philosophy, etc. In fact, Athens was often
considered as the cradle of Western Civilization
and the birthplace of Democracy. Today Athens is
a growing cosmopolitan metropolis and the center
for finance, industry, politics, tourism, etc.
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3. A beta global city and one of the
biggest economies in south-eastern Europe. Athens
is a city where the remnants of the classical era
still dominate the city, the have been sprinkled
with the finest Roman, Ottoman, and Byzantine
monuments some of which have been listed in the
UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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• which consists of the largest Greek antiquities
  collections in the world. Other popular museums
  in Athens include the Museum of Cycladic Art, the
  Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Benaki
  Museum, etc.
• The first modern-day Olympic Game was
  held in 1896 in Athens and later the 2004 Summer
  Olympics.
• 6. Some of the most popular attractions
  in Athens include the Acropolis of Athens, the
  Parthenon, the Acropolis Museum, Temple of
  Olympian Zeus, Ancient Agora of Athens, Syntagma
  Square, Mount Lycabettus, Old Temple of Athena,
  Panathenaic Stadium, Benaki Museum,
  Archaeological site of Kerameikos, etc.

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1. Athens experiences hot summer Mediterranean type
   of climate with prolonged hot and dry summers
   while winters are moderate.
2. Religions followed in Athens include
   Greek Orthodoxy (71), Christian (6), Atheism
   and irreligion (11), Islam (10), etc
3. Athens is regarded as one of the best
   cities in the world for archaeological
   research-there are countless archaeological
   museums like the National Archaeological Museum,
   the Epigraphic Museum, the Byzantine and
   Christian Museum, and many more.
4. Athens is home to around 148 theatrical
   stages the largest in the world.