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In Athens, on the Acropolis construction site

2020-09-30T13:17:46.374Z


STORY - Forty-five years of restoration work have profoundly transformed the face of the Acropolis. For a generation of Greek archaeologists, they will have been the work of a lifetime.


This article comes from the “Figaro Hors-Série” devoted to Athens, the eternal city

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“The work will last as long as it will last.

It would not be serious to give them a term.

Ultimately, we could consider that it is necessary to resume, in fine, what we started with and that thus, they never end. "

It was in the spring of 2004, a few months before the opening of the Olympic Games which returned for the first time to Athens, more than a century after their resurrection.

Lazaros Kolonas was then director general of Greek Antiquities, and he was annoyed at having to respond indefinitely to the pack of journalists who had invaded Athens and

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