Απιστευτο και ομως ....ΤΣΙΜΕΝΤΩΝΟΥΝ την ....ΑΚΡΟΠΟΛΗ !!!!

[Υδράργυρος]

Ντισνευλαντ

[Υδράργυρος]

Θέλουν να κάνουν την Ακρόπολη Ντίσνευλαντ

Οι ροχάλες πέφτουν σαν το χαλάζι

'They want to make the Acropolis into Disneyland.' Site renovations face backlash.

Greece says it wants to make the Acropolis more accessible. Critics say it’s turning the ancient site into Disneyland.

The World

June 17, 2021 · 2:30 PM EDT
By Lydia Emmanouilidou

A concrete walkway has been paved on the Acropolis plateau in an effort to make the site more accessible. But critics say materials used would make it impossible to remove the pathway without damaging the ancient bedrock underneath.


Credit:

Lydia Emmanouilidou/The World

Architect Tasos Tanoulas is intimately familiar with the ancient ruins of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

For decades, he led preservation and restoration work on the landmark’s monuments, and on his nearly daily visits, which he’s continued to do even after retiring, he's encountered a site virtually unaltered.

Related: In Greece, thousands of asylum-seekers are waiting for the COVID-19 vaccine

But on a recent trek to the ancient structure, Tanoulas was struck by a change that didn’t require a trained eye to spot: a new concrete walkway being paved around the ancient ruins.

“It was a shock ... I was astonished. If … the rest of the archaeological site [is] paved anew, you understand what is going to happen: This is not going to be the Acropolis anymore.”
Tasos Tanoulas, architect, Greece

“It was a shock ... I was astonished,” Tanoulas said. “If … the rest of the archaeological site [is] paved anew, you understand what is going to happen: This is not going to be the Acropolis anymore.”

The concrete pathway — a portion of which has since been completed and is expected to be expanded throughout the entire site — is part of an initiative to make the site more accessible to modern-day visitors. Accessibility advocates and Greek officials argue that the project is much-needed and long overdue.

A previous iteration of a pathway on the Acropolis plateau, completed in 1977. Critics of the new walkway say its predecessor was more aesthetically fitting and was constructed with materials that allowed it to be removed without damaging the ancient bedr

A previous iteration of a pathway on the Acropolis plateau, completed in 1977. Critics of the new walkway say its predecessor was more aesthetically fitting and was constructed with materials that allowed it to be removed without damaging the ancient bedrock underneath.
Credit:

Courtesy of Tasos Tanoulas

But the plans have also faced fierce opposition from critics in Greece and abroad who say that the already-completed interventions, along with other planned aesthetic changes, threaten to defile the ancient ruins.

The Acropolis, perched on a limestone hill some 250 feet above the Greek capital, is one of the country’s most treasured and often-visited archeological sites, welcoming more than 3 million visitors annually in pre-pandemic times.

Related: As Cyprus' leaders convene for peace talks in Geneva, some Cypriots say 'expectations are low'

The UNESCO World Heritage Site houses monuments including the Parthenon — a temple the ancient Athenians built to Athena, the patron goddess of the city, in the fifth century BC.

Despite having the talent, vision and perhaps even foresight to build monuments that captured the imaginations of people for millennia, “the ancient Athenians were not thinking about accessibility,” said Ioannis Vardakastanis, president of the Greek National Confederation of Disabled People (NCDP).

For decades, the Acropolis had not been adequately equipped for visitors in wheelchairs and those with mobility challenges, Vardakastanis said.

During a visit to the site last week, Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni said it was unfathomable for the Acropolis, which she likened to “a symbol of Greek … and Western civilization,” not to be accessible to all who wish to visit.

In addition to paving a wheelchair-accessible pathway at the Acropolis, Mendoni said her ministry has also overseen the installation of an elevator, deployment of golf carts to ease transfer from the site’s parking lot and they’re working to make additional changes to the site, such as Braille signs and parking spaces.

The NCDP, which is the country’s leading association for people with disabilities, welcomed the changes and encouraged more to be done.

Manolis Korres, an internationally renowned restoration architect and globally respected Acropolis expert spearheading much of the work at the site, said the new pathway, in particular, would improve the experience for all visitors.

Manolis Korres, an internationally renowned restoration architect and globally respected Acropolis expert is spearheading much of the work on the site in Athens, Greece.

Manolis Korres, an internationally renowned restoration architect and globally respected Acropolis expert, is spearheading much of the work on the site in Athens, Greece.
Credit:

Lydia Emmanouilidou/The World

“For the first time, visitors will be able to appreciate the monuments” without having to look down and be distracted by worries of falling on the slippery and uneven terrain, he said.

Critics, though, claim the project was carried out without transparency or proper study, and that the reinforced concrete used on the walkway could permanently damage the ancient bedrock underneath — assertions that the Ministry of Culture strongly denies.

The ministry says the renovations were done with utmost respect for the site and after meticulous study, and that the interventions strictly follow internationally accepted principles of reversibility.

Related: 'People are being abandoned in the middle of the sea': Claims that Greece pushes back migrants to Turkey are rising

More than 600 scholars, artists and other critics have signed a letter aimed at exposing what they see as flaws with the project’s substance and process, and urging that it be stopped.

Critics are also concerned about other interventions that they say go far beyond restoration — and instead would “degrade” and “devalue” the archaeological site. Specifically, they oppose a series of aesthetic changes aimed at restoring the site to what Korres and his team describe as its “correct” and “authentic” form.

The plans include a major overhaul of the ancient staircase leading to the Acropolis entrance and the creation of horizontal terraces that existed on the plateau during the classical period. Korres has also floated the idea of erecting replicas of statues where they once stood thousands of years ago.

“My feeling about all this is that it’s a crime. It’s very sad. It’s like a nightmare to be honest.”
Tasos Tanoulas, architect, Greece

“My feeling about all this is that it’s a crime. It’s very sad. It’s like a nightmare to be honest,” Tanoulas said, adding that he had hoped he would not live to see such changes to the ancient site.

Tasos Tanoulas, who for decades led restoration and preservation projects on the Acropolis, is calling on renovations to the Acropolis to stop.

Tasos Tanoulas, who for decades led restoration and preservation projects on the Acropolis, is calling on renovations to the Acropolis to stop.
Credit:

Courtesy of Tasos Tanoulas

“They want to make the Acropolis [into] Disneyland,” Tanoulas said.

Yannis Hamilakis, a professor of archeology and modern Greek studies at Brown University, has echoed this — and said he finds it troubling that Korres seems intent on reconstructing the Acropolis of a certain moment in history: the classical period.

Related: A mental health crisis on Lesbos is worsening

“This is a site of many different periods. It was very important during prehistory. It was a very important Mycenaean citadel. It was very important in postclassical periods, in Roman times, in medieval times, Byzantine times, during the Ottoman times,” he said.

The renovations, he added, seem to be based on a selective, romanticized, Western fantasy of the Greek, classical period.

“So, in today's multicultural world, we are building a monument to colonial national ideology of neoclassicism, a monument that does not speak to the realities of the country and of the world, in general,” Hamilakis said.

During his media appearance at the Acropolis last week, Korres dismissed the criticism and rejected the idea that he’s imposing a singular vision for the site.

But he did accept one of the critiques: “We rushed, we had to rush. But look at my age,” the 73-year-old joked while standing in front of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon. “I can’t afford to wait.”

https://www.pri.org/stories/2021-06-17/ ... e-backlash

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Αγγλικές ροχάλες

Acropolis now: Greeks outraged at concreting of ancient site
Workers are cementing the pathway to the Parthenon temple in Athens.
An online petition signed by 3,500 people calls for the concrete pathways to the Acropolis to be removed. Photograph: Yannis Kolesidis/EPA

Installation of new pathway and lift has been criticised by archaeologists and called ‘a scandal’
Helena Smith in Athens
Thu 10 Jun 2021 05.00 BST

Last modified on Thu 10 Jun 2021 15.14 BST

When seen through the eyes of Manolis Korres, the architect who has long presided over the restoration of the Parthenon, the Acropolis needs no improvement at all.

In the face of such architectural mastery, he thinks of himself more as a maestro of order, making a monument that has survived explosions, fire, looting and earthquakes more understandable to the public.

“Many generations of scholars have tried to bring order to this chaos, myself included,” he said, while taking in the maze of marble slabs and scaffolding-encased ruins around him. “The issue is to safeguard what is here. In a hospital you have to take care of patients, for me the patients are stones.”
Professor Manolis Korres in front of the Parthenon
‘Many generations of scholars have tried to bring order to this chaos, myself included’ – Prof Manolis Korres. Photograph: Helena Smith/The Guardian

The wiry professor, a world-renowned authority on the fifth century BC site and current head of the Acropolis Monuments Conservation committee, is regarded as a national treasure in Greece. No man, say supporters, knows more about the Periclean treasure, or the sacred rock on which it stands.

But at 73, 70 years after he was first taken as a child on the shoulders of an uncle to visit the temples, the architect has also come under criticism for interventions conducted during lockdown and deemed to have gone too far.

The installation of a new pathway paved in reinforced concrete across much of the hill’s open space in the name of facilitating people with disabilities has been met with dismay. So, too, has Korres’ proposed plan to overhaul the ancient citadel’s majestic gateway, or Propylaia, by reinstating a Roman staircase that would both broaden the entrance, correct previous erroneous interventions and return it to some of its original form.
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Critics complain that both pander to mass tourism rather than saving the site from the ravages of time.

Prior to the pandemic, about 3.5 million tourists made the ascent to see the Acropolis, the country’s most visited site.

In the six months that the temples were closed to the public on account of Covid-19, a new lift capable of carrying two wheelchairs at a time was also installed on the rock’s northern flank, replacing an older elevator that had ceased to operate years ago. That, too, has been criticised as a modernist eyesore.

The alterations – the most significant on the site for more than a century – replace an older pathway that followed the ancient Panathenaic way and was much narrower in size. Opposition has been fierce. More than 3,500 signatories have endorsed an open letter on the online activist network Avaaz calling for the pathways to be removed and other projected changes to be cancelled. Following the completion of the corridors on the northern and eastern area of the site, plans are afoot to extend the walkways west and south.

“It’s as if the Parthenon itself has been lowered to street level and surrounded by a cement pavement,” said Despoina Koutsoumba, president of the Association of Greek archaeologists. “There has been a great deal of pressure, especially from the cruise industry, to increase visitor capacity so that even larger crowds can be accommodated.”

Dr Tasos Tanoulas, until recently director of restorations at the Propylaia, also deplored the decision to cover so much of the rock’s face with reinforced concrete, saying the move would lead inexorably to “degradation of the natural landscape and a devaluation of the rock as a natural monument in its own right, as a natural fort”. In a letter to World Heritage Watch – the Berlin-based body established to ensure that prime sites are not sacrificed to economic interests – Tanoulas argued the alterations appeared to “compete with and diminish” the architectural and sculptural splendour of the monuments.

Yannis Hamilakis, a professor of archaeology and modern Greek studies at Brown University, went further, saying the changes amounted to “a scandal of global proportions” given the monument’s significance as a world heritage site.

“The most scandalous thing, perhaps, is that these works have been carried out without prior systematic study,” he said. “They’re clearly an attempt to recreate an imagined fifth century BC Acropolis, a neo-classical colonialist and nationalist dream which converges with the government’s agenda for further commercialisation of the site.”

If proof were needed, he said, the French designer Christian Dior will be among the first to take advantage of the new expanded pathways with a fashion shoot on the Acropolis next week.

But the changes have also won praise, and according to Korres, have the added advantage of being ‘reversible’. “What we have done is patch rock destroyed by the vicissitudes of time. We didn’t have the freedom to use flagstones or other materials because they weren’t used in the past but, if desired, all this surface,” he said pointing to the paving, “could be removed in a day because of the membrane underneath.”

Greece’s culture minister, Lina Mendoni, a respected archaeologist herself, defended the measures, saying they had been ratified at multiple levels, including the powerful central archaeological council Kas. “They’ve all been approved by people whose credibility cannot be disputed,” she said during a tour of the site. “Since 2004 [when Athens held the Olympic Games] we’ve been talking about improving access for people with disabilities.”

Each year about 150 people are seriously injured negotiating the outcrop’s slippery limestone surface, she revealed. “Many break legs. Each incident is recorded in the site’s logbooks. Whatever you do on the Acropolis ignites debate. If you don’t do anything, you’re criticised; if you do, you’re criticised.”

Tour guides gathered around the monument’s ticket booths on Wednesday agreed the new pathways were overdue. “There are ambulances up here at least four times a week,” said Athina Pitaki who has been guiding visitors around the site since 1978. “I’ve been up here long enough to see all the changes and in reality it’s much better now. It hasn’t affected the monuments. They’re still as impressive as ever and for the first time people can enjoy them without always fearing they’re about to fall.”

Korres knows he is in for a fight. Flooding at the site described as “a predictable consequence” of the new paving following heavy rains last December has intensified the outcry. Critics, led by Dr Tanoulas, claim it would be impossible to detach the reinforced concrete because it would require mechanical means and damage the rock.

But it is controversy the amiable professor appears to relish. “A hilltop can’t flood,” he smiles. “Any intervention raises the issue of aesthetics and is a controversial process. It’s always about weighing what is gained and what is lost.”

The map on this article was amended on 10 June 2021 to remove an incorrect reference to the Temple of Athena Nike.
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[Kolovrat]

Εναντίον αυτών των συνανθρώπων μας καταφέρθηκαν τα μισάνθρωπα καθάρματα της αριστεράς και του κκ

Ξέρουμε ποιες είναι οι απόψεις των ζαίων για τους ανθρώπους με αναπηρία, δεν θα τους μάθουμε τώρα

Ενδεικτικά

[ΣΑΤΑΝΙΚΟΣ ΕΓΚΕΦΑΛΟΣ]

Αθόρυβα και τμηματικά μεθοδεύει το υπουργείο Πολιτισμού .......δραματικές και χωρίς μελέτη αλλαγές στην πρόσβαση στο μνημείο.

Η χώρα είναι ενάμιση χρόνο σε λοκντάουν. Η οικονομία παραπαίει, ο τουρισμός κατεστραμμένος, οι επιχειρήσεις υποφέρουν, το χρέος εκτοξεύεται. Είναι προτεραιότητα να δοθούν 10 εκατομμύρια παό το ταμείο ανάκαμψης στην ακρόπολη για αμφιλεγομενα έργα;

Τα αμφιλεγόμενα έργα

peak σρζ

[ΣΑΤΑΝΙΚΟΣ ΕΓΚΕΦΑΛΟΣ]

Θέλουν να κάνουν την Ακρόπολη Ντίσνευλαντ

Οι ροχάλες πέφτουν σαν το χαλάζι

'They want to make the Acropolis into Disneyland.' Site renovations face backlash.

Greece says it wants to make the Acropolis more accessible. Critics say it’s turning the ancient site into Disneyland.

The World

June 17, 2021 · 2:30 PM EDT
By Lydia Emmanouilidou

A concrete walkway has been paved on the Acropolis plateau in an effort to make the site more accessible. But critics say materials used would make it impossible to remove the pathway without damaging the ancient bedrock underneath.


Credit:

Lydia Emmanouilidou/The World

Architect Tasos Tanoulas is intimately familiar with the ancient ruins of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

For decades, he led preservation and restoration work on the landmark’s monuments, and on his nearly daily visits, which he’s continued to do even after retiring, he's encountered a site virtually unaltered.

Related: In Greece, thousands of asylum-seekers are waiting for the COVID-19 vaccine

But on a recent trek to the ancient structure, Tanoulas was struck by a change that didn’t require a trained eye to spot: a new concrete walkway being paved around the ancient ruins.

“It was a shock ... I was astonished. If … the rest of the archaeological site [is] paved anew, you understand what is going to happen: This is not going to be the Acropolis anymore.”
Tasos Tanoulas, architect, Greece

“It was a shock ... I was astonished,” Tanoulas said. “If … the rest of the archaeological site [is] paved anew, you understand what is going to happen: This is not going to be the Acropolis anymore.”

The concrete pathway — a portion of which has since been completed and is expected to be expanded throughout the entire site — is part of an initiative to make the site more accessible to modern-day visitors. Accessibility advocates and Greek officials argue that the project is much-needed and long overdue.

A previous iteration of a pathway on the Acropolis plateau, completed in 1977. Critics of the new walkway say its predecessor was more aesthetically fitting and was constructed with materials that allowed it to be removed without damaging the ancient bedr

A previous iteration of a pathway on the Acropolis plateau, completed in 1977. Critics of the new walkway say its predecessor was more aesthetically fitting and was constructed with materials that allowed it to be removed without damaging the ancient bedrock underneath.
Credit:

Courtesy of Tasos Tanoulas

But the plans have also faced fierce opposition from critics in Greece and abroad who say that the already-completed interventions, along with other planned aesthetic changes, threaten to defile the ancient ruins.

The Acropolis, perched on a limestone hill some 250 feet above the Greek capital, is one of the country’s most treasured and often-visited archeological sites, welcoming more than 3 million visitors annually in pre-pandemic times.

Related: As Cyprus' leaders convene for peace talks in Geneva, some Cypriots say 'expectations are low'

The UNESCO World Heritage Site houses monuments including the Parthenon — a temple the ancient Athenians built to Athena, the patron goddess of the city, in the fifth century BC.

Despite having the talent, vision and perhaps even foresight to build monuments that captured the imaginations of people for millennia, “the ancient Athenians were not thinking about accessibility,” said Ioannis Vardakastanis, president of the Greek National Confederation of Disabled People (NCDP).

For decades, the Acropolis had not been adequately equipped for visitors in wheelchairs and those with mobility challenges, Vardakastanis said.

During a visit to the site last week, Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports Lina Mendoni said it was unfathomable for the Acropolis, which she likened to “a symbol of Greek … and Western civilization,” not to be accessible to all who wish to visit.

In addition to paving a wheelchair-accessible pathway at the Acropolis, Mendoni said her ministry has also overseen the installation of an elevator, deployment of golf carts to ease transfer from the site’s parking lot and they’re working to make additional changes to the site, such as Braille signs and parking spaces.

The NCDP, which is the country’s leading association for people with disabilities, welcomed the changes and encouraged more to be done.

Manolis Korres, an internationally renowned restoration architect and globally respected Acropolis expert spearheading much of the work at the site, said the new pathway, in particular, would improve the experience for all visitors.

Manolis Korres, an internationally renowned restoration architect and globally respected Acropolis expert is spearheading much of the work on the site in Athens, Greece.

Manolis Korres, an internationally renowned restoration architect and globally respected Acropolis expert, is spearheading much of the work on the site in Athens, Greece.
Credit:

Lydia Emmanouilidou/The World

“For the first time, visitors will be able to appreciate the monuments” without having to look down and be distracted by worries of falling on the slippery and uneven terrain, he said.

Critics, though, claim the project was carried out without transparency or proper study, and that the reinforced concrete used on the walkway could permanently damage the ancient bedrock underneath — assertions that the Ministry of Culture strongly denies.

The ministry says the renovations were done with utmost respect for the site and after meticulous study, and that the interventions strictly follow internationally accepted principles of reversibility.

Related: 'People are being abandoned in the middle of the sea': Claims that Greece pushes back migrants to Turkey are rising

More than 600 scholars, artists and other critics have signed a letter aimed at exposing what they see as flaws with the project’s substance and process, and urging that it be stopped.

Critics are also concerned about other interventions that they say go far beyond restoration — and instead would “degrade” and “devalue” the archaeological site. Specifically, they oppose a series of aesthetic changes aimed at restoring the site to what Korres and his team describe as its “correct” and “authentic” form.

The plans include a major overhaul of the ancient staircase leading to the Acropolis entrance and the creation of horizontal terraces that existed on the plateau during the classical period. Korres has also floated the idea of erecting replicas of statues where they once stood thousands of years ago.

“My feeling about all this is that it’s a crime. It’s very sad. It’s like a nightmare to be honest.”
Tasos Tanoulas, architect, Greece

“My feeling about all this is that it’s a crime. It’s very sad. It’s like a nightmare to be honest,” Tanoulas said, adding that he had hoped he would not live to see such changes to the ancient site.

Tasos Tanoulas, who for decades led restoration and preservation projects on the Acropolis, is calling on renovations to the Acropolis to stop.

Tasos Tanoulas, who for decades led restoration and preservation projects on the Acropolis, is calling on renovations to the Acropolis to stop.
Credit:

Courtesy of Tasos Tanoulas

“They want to make the Acropolis [into] Disneyland,” Tanoulas said.

Yannis Hamilakis, a professor of archeology and modern Greek studies at Brown University, has echoed this — and said he finds it troubling that Korres seems intent on reconstructing the Acropolis of a certain moment in history: the classical period.

Related: A mental health crisis on Lesbos is worsening

“This is a site of many different periods. It was very important during prehistory. It was a very important Mycenaean citadel. It was very important in postclassical periods, in Roman times, in medieval times, Byzantine times, during the Ottoman times,” he said.

The renovations, he added, seem to be based on a selective, romanticized, Western fantasy of the Greek, classical period.

“So, in today's multicultural world, we are building a monument to colonial national ideology of neoclassicism, a monument that does not speak to the realities of the country and of the world, in general,” Hamilakis said.

During his media appearance at the Acropolis last week, Korres dismissed the criticism and rejected the idea that he’s imposing a singular vision for the site.

But he did accept one of the critiques: “We rushed, we had to rush. But look at my age,” the 73-year-old joked while standing in front of the 2,500-year-old Parthenon. “I can’t afford to wait.”

https://www.pri.org/stories/2021-06-17/ ... e-backlash

Άλα της και αποκελιστικό η Λυδία η σρζτρώγλη

Ντισνευλαντ

Τα γκανιάν - θησαυρός - ρέμπους τί θέση πήραν;

[Υδράργυρος]

Τα αμφιλεγόμενα έργα

Γκεμπελίσκο πρόφαση ήταν οι ΑΜΕΑ, που ούτως ή άλλως το έργο δεν πιστοποιείται για χρήση από ΑΜΕΑ αφού έχει κλίση πάνω από 15% σε κάποια σημεία.
- Διευκολύνεται η πρόσβαση για κρουαζιέρες κλπ
- Δημιουργούνται πλατείες για εκδηλώσεις και διαγγέλματα
- Δημιουργείται μια ντίσνευλαντ κλασικής εποχής

Αυτοί είναι οι λόγοι

[Belisarius]

Θα σοκάρω όλο τον αριστερό κόσμο που τόσο ενδιαφέρεται για τα αρχαία αλλά έχει τσιμενταριστεί και ο ναός του Ποσάιντον στο Σούνιο.

[ΣΑΤΑΝΙΚΟΣ ΕΓΚΕΦΑΛΟΣ]

ΝτιΖνΕϊΛαΝτ ΓιΑ ΓκΡοΥαΖιΕρΟμΠλΙα

[Δημοκράτης]

Οι ζαίοι το έχουν κάψει εντελώς, σκούζουν γιατί θα μπροούν άνθρωποι με προβλήματα κίνησης να επισκέπτονται τα αρχαία. Δεν έχει τέρμα η ξεφτίλα

[Kolovrat]

[ΣΚΕΠΤΙΚΟΣ]

Οι ζαίοι το έχουν κάψει εντελώς, σκούζουν γιατί θα μπροούν άνθρωποι με προβλήματα κίνησης να επισκέπτονται τα αρχαία. Δεν έχει τέρμα η ξεφτίλα

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Θα μπορούσε να γίνει με γυαλί.....καί αλεξίσφαιρο αν θές.....


Εδώ οι Σινέζοι φτιαξανε Γέφυρα απο γυαλί.....


Αλλά μιλάμε για τον Κλασσικό τον Μαλάκα τον Ελληνα.....



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[Thor]

Καλα πηγε κι αυτο για τους αριστερους.
Με τετοια αντιπολιτευση η ΝΔ θα κυβερναει για τα επομενα χιλια χρονια.

[Υδράργυρος]

Θα σοκάρω όλο τον αριστερό κόσμο που τόσο ενδιαφέρεται για τα αρχαία αλλά έχει τσιμενταριστεί και ο ναός του Ποσάιντον στο Σούνιο.

Φοβερή αισθητική. Ειδικά με το κιόσκι

[Thor]

Θα σοκάρω όλο τον αριστερό κόσμο που τόσο ενδιαφέρεται για τα αρχαία αλλά έχει τσιμενταριστεί και ο ναός του Ποσάιντον στο Σούνιο.

Φοβερή αισθητική. Ειδικά με το κιόσκι