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National Glyptotheque
of athens. | η εθνικη
γλυπτοθηκη τησ αθηνασ.
timeless muse where we look upon the people below, laughing.
That is what I feel every morning from my office, as I
Art is look at the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Park: an
in the air architectural marvel by Renzo Piano, whose simple
creation has overthrown the nature of things at the
Athens has its own secrets. A motely of civilisations Delta Falirou area, infusing the summer of 2016 in
and people have lived in this city, each one going Athens with a different meaning and mark.
above and beyond themselves. | Η Αθήνα έχει τα δικά Of course, it is also the fate of History that has
της μυστικά. ΕΖήσαν σε αυτήν την πόλη πολιτισμοί και endowed us, equipped us. That is why we can infiltrate
άνθρωποι, οι οποίοι ξεπέρασαν τον εαυτό τους. easier, and shed droplets of light where the darkness
festers. And while everyone is talking of the economic
T he History begins with the journey of NIKOS STAthOULIS crisis, in Athens, you can have your coffee at “Zonar’s”
Odysseus. Surrounded by the sea. president fondation as you admire authentic artworks by great artists, such
You want to travel to the nearest privee des amis d' as Picasso, Matisse and Giacometti, and take back with
islands, the ones “bursting” with alexandre iolas you an important lesson: that the greatest creators
Art in the summer, and the sea never mourned their era. In fact, they confronted it with
becomes wild. Even the Romans the brightest composition their spirit could conceive.
came here. To Athens. So they can do the same That symbol of war and shipwreck, was taken to the
thing all over again. They built bridges. Aqueducts. highest teachings of light. Athens has a privilege. It
To safeguard their coming and going, upwards and knows from the nearby, how to grasp the distant, the
downwards. Yet we in Athens never secured the far-off. As much as this loneliness is extended around
coming or the going, but rather the adventure that takes our spiritual values, that is how much it tenaciously
you to the extreme, and from there to the summit, from hooks onto them. Since for these values, we need
neither the wealth nor the power that we do not have.
This is where the Muses come in, who had been
banished from the success of material triumph in the
crisis era. The time for Europe and the World is here.
It does not take much to exorcise misery. And Athens
has that quality in strong doses.
Must See: Parthenon, Acropolis Museum, Stavros
Niarchos Park, Onassis Cultural Centre, National
Archaeological Museum, Museum of Cycladic Art,
Byzantine Museum, Benaki Museums. | Η Ιστορία ξεκινά
με το ταξίδι του Οδυσσέα. Τριγύρω της θάλασσα.
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of athens. | η εθνικη
γλυπτοθηκη τησ αθηνασ.
timeless muse where we look upon the people below, laughing.
That is what I feel every morning from my office, as I
Art is look at the new Stavros Niarchos Foundation Park: an
in the air architectural marvel by Renzo Piano, whose simple
creation has overthrown the nature of things at the
Athens has its own secrets. A motely of civilisations Delta Falirou area, infusing the summer of 2016 in
and people have lived in this city, each one going Athens with a different meaning and mark.
above and beyond themselves. | Η Αθήνα έχει τα δικά Of course, it is also the fate of History that has
της μυστικά. ΕΖήσαν σε αυτήν την πόλη πολιτισμοί και endowed us, equipped us. That is why we can infiltrate
άνθρωποι, οι οποίοι ξεπέρασαν τον εαυτό τους. easier, and shed droplets of light where the darkness
festers. And while everyone is talking of the economic
T he History begins with the journey of NIKOS STAthOULIS crisis, in Athens, you can have your coffee at “Zonar’s”
Odysseus. Surrounded by the sea. president fondation as you admire authentic artworks by great artists, such
You want to travel to the nearest privee des amis d' as Picasso, Matisse and Giacometti, and take back with
islands, the ones “bursting” with alexandre iolas you an important lesson: that the greatest creators
Art in the summer, and the sea never mourned their era. In fact, they confronted it with
becomes wild. Even the Romans the brightest composition their spirit could conceive.
came here. To Athens. So they can do the same That symbol of war and shipwreck, was taken to the
thing all over again. They built bridges. Aqueducts. highest teachings of light. Athens has a privilege. It
To safeguard their coming and going, upwards and knows from the nearby, how to grasp the distant, the
downwards. Yet we in Athens never secured the far-off. As much as this loneliness is extended around
coming or the going, but rather the adventure that takes our spiritual values, that is how much it tenaciously
you to the extreme, and from there to the summit, from hooks onto them. Since for these values, we need
neither the wealth nor the power that we do not have.
This is where the Muses come in, who had been
banished from the success of material triumph in the
crisis era. The time for Europe and the World is here.
It does not take much to exorcise misery. And Athens
has that quality in strong doses.
Must See: Parthenon, Acropolis Museum, Stavros
Niarchos Park, Onassis Cultural Centre, National
Archaeological Museum, Museum of Cycladic Art,
Byzantine Museum, Benaki Museums. | Η Ιστορία ξεκινά
με το ταξίδι του Οδυσσέα. Τριγύρω της θάλασσα.
CONTINUED ON PAGE 222
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