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Greek capital Athens (Athens) at the southern tip of the Balkans, San Mianhuan Hill, a Banghai, southwest of the Aegean Sea from the Pharisees Longwan eight kilometers.Athens city and more hills, Yilisuosi Jifeisuosi River and the city over the River Wear.Athens is Greece's largest city, covering 900,000 hectares, population 3.7 million.Athens to the European and world culture have had a significant impact on the ancient "the cradle of Western civilization" reputation.Athens mild climate, the Mediterranean-type climate is tropical.Winter warm and humid summer weather, sunny, the average minimum temperature of 0 ℃, the highest temperature of 37 ℃.Athens is the wisdom of the goddess Athena, named after the historic city.Legend has it Greece in ancient times, the wisdom of the goddess Athena and Poseidon the sea wave to Athens for the protection of God status stalemate.Later, the main god Zeus decision: Who to mankind a useful thing, the city on Guishui.Poseidon has given human beings a symbol of the war Zhuang Ma, and the wisdom of a human dedicated to the Goddess Athena lush foliage, numerous fruit, olive oil symbol of peace.People yearn for peace, not war, the results of this city to the Goddess Athena.From then on, she became the protection of God in Athens, the Athens therefore named.Later, people put Athens as "love, a city of peace."Sunset YU shadow of the Athens urbanAthens, Greece is the rail and aviation hub.Direct access to the EU train and Western Europe.Athens city traffic developed, the streets every day about 800,000 motor vehicles moving.Athens Metro is the world's older cities, the opening of the MTR in 1925, 25.7 kilometers long.After the First World War from Athens, Greece has been the economic and trade centre.It has a major Greek port - Piraeus port, and is connected with the railway.Piraeus port can accommodate all kinds of vessels, with thousands of registered merchant ships.Athens tourism industry is well developed, Athens has become an important pillar of the economy.Athens is well-known world of the ancient city of culture, history, created a brilliant ancient culture, many precious cultural heritage Evolution-date, a part of the world's cultural treasure house.Athens in mathematics, philosophy, literature, architecture, sculpture and so on have made a tremendous achievements.Daxi playwright Aristophanes, Taibei playwright love Siqilisi, Suofu Chris and David, Phi at the end of Sri Lanka, the historian Herodotus Thucydides, the philosopher Socrates, Plato, Aristotle in Athens are engaged in research and creative activity.Athens famous buildings mainly located in the city on a hill three.339 m high mountain Huancavelica Wei Tuosi built National Library, the Athens Academy of Sciences, the University of Athens (1837 reconstruction).Nimufusi the mountains built Observatory (1842 built), the new Royal Palace (built 1891-1897).Lennon Nagappatinam the world-famous temple is located in the mountains A Keluo Indianapolis.Athens seaside city of the Olympic rings sculpture AvenueNagappatinam Lennon temple of the goddess Athena is Chongfeng Shrine, the Greek prime architecture and art sculpture masterpiece, built in the 5th century BC.Later, several temple destroyed by the war, only in the west to retain a number of stone pillars and buildings.In downtown Athens, the Greek historical heritage museum in Athens is another important building.Here displays from 4000 BC has been the large number of cultural relics, all kinds of equipment, sophisticated statue of gold ornaments and personalities, Greece vividly demonstrates the various historical periods of the splendid culture, ancient Greece can be said to be a microcosm of the history.Greece is the birthplace of the Olympic Games.In ancient times, the Greeks, sports competitions as a sacrificial Mount Olympus gods of a festive activities.776 BC, in Athens, about 300 km from the Peloponnesian Peninsula in the western village of Olympia held the history of mankind's earliest Games, held once every four years.To commemorate the Olympics Games and 1896 Athens Olympic Games held its first session.Later, although the Games to be held in rotation in other countries, but still use the Olympic name, and each session of the torch is lit from here.Athens, Greece is the country's scientific and cultural centres, the highest scientific research institutions Athens Academy, the famous Athens Kabo quarter斯特利亚斯University, Athens National Institute of Technology, Mr Weng measures are located here.Reproduced: http://news.xinhuanet.com/ziliao/2002-05/17/content_397640.htm

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