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2022-06-13T19:26:19.920Z


The bicentenary of independence was celebrated in Athens with the inauguration of the new Pinacoteca, where the reunion of Europe and contemporary Greece can be seen.


Athens has famous museums, sumptuous collections of antiquities: the new museum of the Acropolis now presents the various states of the temples of the holy hill in prodigious luxury and pomp, at the very foot of the site where the works were discovered exhibited.

The National Museum deploys in a neoclassical palace the most fabulous collections of statuary, resulting from two centuries of excavations throughout Greece, at the same time as the wonders of the tombs of Mycenae.

The Benaki Museum and the Goulandris Foundation house in delightful mansions, facing the royal garden of Queen Amalia, the treasures accumulated by the most refined collectors.

The Ceramics Museum exhibits touching funerary stelae from the ancient cemetery.

The Piraeus Museum surprises with its monumental bronze statues of

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Source: lefigaro

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