High City

Is the literal meaning of “acropolis,” and the multi-cultural population of a city visits it every day, In 480 BC, sixteen year old Pericles, his friend Sophocles, and their precocious tag-along Czytaj więcej
Is the literal meaning of “acropolis,” and the multi-cultural population of a city visits it every day, In 480 BC, sixteen year old Pericles, his friend Sophocles, and their precocious tag-along Czytaj więcej
PodróżnikBefore you leave Athens, I hope you'll enact Socrates's opening lines in Plato's Republic (i.e., go down to the Piraeus ...) is it a long walk though? otherwise, thanks for the informative travelogue and the reminder about the ravages of British imperialism, courtesy Lord Elgin and so many others. onward! MGD
PodróżnikPiraeus must have been a half day’s walk because it’s a thirty minute city drive. It’s an impressive town, tho, very much its own character, and attractive. We had planned to use the Metro but the Piraeus station wss closed both days we were there due to "technical difficulties"