A new security system will be installed on the Athens Acropolis, including 150 next-generation surveillance cameras, which will be monitored around the clock from the control room. MGreek Ministry of Culture. To replace the existing, outdated network of Acropolis cameras, comes a new, high-tech, active security system with a special control center to monitor events […]
Amazing broadcast of Greek channel ET1 with host Fredi Germanos, in which Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santos describe in detail how they removed the German flag from the Acropolis, where they put it, and what happened next, now with Russian subtitles. The program was filmed in 1981 and was first shown in 1982 as part […]
The Greek Communist Party, the KKE, unfurled two banners over one of the walls of the Athenian Acropolis early Thursday morning. The inscriptions in Greek and English read: “No to war. There is no involvement. No foundations of death.” The KKE has always referred to US military bases as “death bases”. “No subjugation to imperialism, […]
The BBC Special Project, a standalone film highlighting the changes made to the Acropolis to make the cultural monument accessible to people with disabilities, will hit TV screens on Sunday 8 May. A program called “Acropolis Now” will be broadcast on Sunday afternoon. The presenter – one of the most famous British media journalists, chained […]
The World Heritage Centre, UNESCO’s coordinator for all matters related to registered World Heritage sites, has taken the initiative and will send a team of experts to closely examine the concrete paths on the Acropolis. The covering of the area with concrete in 2020, by order of the Greek Minister of Culture, caused a wave […]
The short film Ξεπαρθενών (Xaparfenon), which shows the amorous pleasures of two men on the Acropolis, has sparked outrage in Greece. Its creators used the sanctuary as a backdrop for explicit love scenes, without asking permission for any filming from the authorities and without informing anyone of their intentions. The guards who were there at […]
Last night, November 27, shortly before 22:00, a group of hooded young men attacked the Acropolis police station with Molotov cocktails. Five Molotov cocktails thrown by them damaged the facade of the building, no one was injured. After the attack, a large group fled to the Filopappou Hill area. The police blocked off the area, […]
At the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, at the foot of the Acropolis, Jonas Kaufman, one of the greatest tenors in the world, performed. Pleasure was received not only by the listeners, but also by the performer himself, who, according to him, performed where the gods dwell. This is the oldest stage of all, where the […]
On Sunday, October 17, two women tried to hang a poster on the Acropolis to protest the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. According to the New York organization Students for Free Tibet, the activists were detained by the Greek police. The group said that Tsela Zoksang, an 18-year-old Tibetan student, and Joey Siu, a 22-year-old Hong […]