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ATHENS GULET YACHT RENTAL - GREEK ISLAND BLUE JOURNEY - SPECIAL YACHT AND YACHT RENTAL ATHENS
Athens is the capital and the largest city in Greece. With 3400 years of history, it is one of the oldest cities in the world. The ancient city of Athens was a strong city that was recently liaison to sea and sea trade from the port city of Piraeus, part of Athens. Piraeus now owns the most important access port of Greece. In the history of civilization, especially in the fields of ancient philosophy and art, the developments in the city of Athens are of great importance.
Athens is home to Plato Academy and Aristotales. Due to Athens's unique contribution to world cultures, Western civilizations were inclined to relate themselves to the civilization of Athens at the time of the golden ages of eastern civilizations. Contemporary Athens is a city where the ancient Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman periods and the structures and cultures of contemporary times lived together. It is possible to see the structures belonging to these periods together in harmony in the city. Athens is the political, cultural and financial capital of Greece. With the recent economic crisis deeply affecting Greece, the everyday life, shaken by a recession, has returned to normal by 2012. Athens is the 39th richest city in the world in 2012. Athens city center has 664 thousand population. With Piraeus and other regions, the population of Athens is close to 4 million. It is the fourth most populous capital of the European Union.
You can almost feel the heritage of this ancient city. The Parthenon is one of the most recognizable figures of this period. Apart from the Parthenon, it is possible to find significant structures from the Ottoman, Byzantine and Roman periods. Two UNESCO world heritage sites in Athens, Athens Acropolis and Dafni Monastery. The 19th century Greek Parliament and the National Library of Greece, the Athens Triad, the University of Athens and the Athens Academy are some of the finest examples of modern trends. In 1896 Athens organized the first modern Olympics. The Modern Archaeological Museum in Athens has the largest collection of ancient Greek artifacts in the world. The new Acropolis museum is a must-see museum in Athens.
