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Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in , and years later it welcomed home the Summer Olympics. Athens is home to the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities, as well as the new Acropolis Museum. More information is available on Wikipedia.

Today we feature the city of Athens, located in south-east Greece, the capital and largest city of the country. With its port Piraeus, which is located about 8 km to the south-west on the Saronic Gulf an inlet of the Aegean Sea , it forms a unified metropolitan region. Another aim of these images is to promote the opportunity to download Landsat data through the ESA portals, where images captured every day are made available in near real time to the users and the scientific community.

View large format slider. Athens, Greece. Then you have to keep walking, straight to the Monastiraki neighborhood, which is filled with touristy stalls but is also the home of Martinos , one of my favorite stores in the world, and one of the oldest in Athens.

A recent trip ignited a new obsession with Greek island jewelry made during the Ottoman period. As is a drive out to the Athenian Riviera for drinks at Island also the brainchild of Chrysanthos Panas , which has a setting by the sea that Athenian dreams are made of.

I will have more to tell and to post to the ongoing story of the tandcathensitinerary. And you will too. The Scene. Athens is the capital of Greece and the center of ancient Greek civilization.

The central part of the country is located in Southeast Europe. It is also located on a plain surrounded by hills on three sides. It has a population of about 4 million. Athens is also the largest and most populous city in the country.