Saint George’s Chapel at the top of Lycabettus Hill

One day a demonstration the next day it is someone very important visiting Athens from Germany

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May 2nd 2022
So we wer up early this morning and decided to go to the funicular to see if it is running as it is a Bank Holiday Monday just like at home. Anyway, thank goodness it was working so we decided not to get a return ticket but a single and we would walk down. It is the first ever funicular that I have been on that was carved through rock so there is absolutely nothing to see apart from a tunnel. H ... read more

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Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In Worl... ... read more