The capital and the largest city of Greece located in the most-southern of balkan Peninsula and it is one of the oldest cities in the world. The focal point of athens is naturally the Acropolis. the word "Acropolis" means "city on the hill". Neolithis remains (5000 B.C) have been found on the Acropolis and the central hills of the city, showing that this area was inhabited well before the 6th century that the classical era of Athens developed date. The name Athens stems from the goddess Athena, worshiped in ancient times. For the visitor it contains a fascinating glimpse of the world of the ancient Greeks who once walked in its streets. Socrates, Plato, Pericles are amongst the famous names you will come across as you jurney around the ancient city, not to mention the roman and Byzantine presence evident alongside the temples and arches of classical Greece. However Athens has more to show than its heritage.

Athens was selected as the host city of the 2004 Olympic Games in Lausanne, Switzerland on 5 September 1997. On that same day, the Host City Contract for the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad was signed. These events marked the beginning of a unique journey in the history of Olympism that will culminate in Greece from 13 to 29 August 2004. The Games are returning home to the country that gave birth to the Olympic celebration more than 2,000 years ago and the city that staged the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.

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