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HOTELS in ATHENS, GREECE
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ATHENS Cypria Hotel
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hotel is a few minutes
from Syntagma square,
offering a reasonably
priced alternative for
those who want convenience
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Divani
Caravel Hotel
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The
completely renovated, deluxe
five-star Divani Caravel Hotel
is ideally situated in the heart
of the city, just minutes away
from the business center.
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Hotel
Booking in Athens,Greece
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The
trip to Greece, home of Homer, the Gods,
Democracy, modern thought and a cast of
characters too numerous to list and many
with names too difficult to pronounce. The
long awaited moment you have been saving
for. But as you make your way through the
Athens airport and then to your hotel downtown
there is an uneasy feeling brewing inside.
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The
traffic, the endless concrete of apartment buildings
is not what they showed you on the tourist brochures.
No men in skirts and pom-pommed shoes walking the
streets of Athens. No sign of Anthony Quinn. Just
a big sprawling, congested, noisy, chaotic, polluted
city. You know that your Greek island paradise vacation
awaits you but first you must survive this final
test...Athens. Sounds awful right? Don't worry.
Athens is a fun place. It just looks like hell at
first glance. You don't have to be counting the
minutes until your flight to Mykonos or back to
America. You can have a great time in this city
and actually miss it when you return home. If this
does not seem possible to you...trust me and read
on. Within
the sprawling city of Athens it is easy to imagine
the golden age of Greece when Pericles had the Parthenon
built. When the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles
and Euripides were performed in the Theater of Dionysus.
And when democracy brought all citizens together
to decide their common fate on the Pynx Hill. Athens
is built around the Acropolis and the pinnacled
crag of Mt. Lycabettus.
The
goddess Athena was said to have dropped from the
heavens as a bulwark to defend the city.
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The suburbs have covered
the barren plain in all directions and the
city is packed with lively taverns and bustling
shops. Dominating the Athenian landscape,
the Acropolis is unsurpassed in its beauty,
architectural splendor and historic importance.
The entrance to the Acropolis is the Propylea,
which extends 150 feet adjoining the temple
of Athena Nike or Wingless Victory. The Parthenon
is on the highest part of the Acropolis and
was built between 447 and 437 BC. It was here
that modern democracy began its early foothold.
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