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Zappeion Hall卫星地图 (希腊奥运会场馆)

The Zappeion Hall is one of the outstanding memorial edifices in Athens, built with funds provided by national benefactor Evangelos Zappas, the first Greek who dreamed that the Olympic Games might return to Greece. When the Olympics were revived in 1896, the Zappeion was used as the venue for the fencing event; and in the interim Olympics of 1906, it was used as the first Olympic village. The building also has a historical connection with Greece's European course: it was there that the signature was put on Greece's entry into the Common Market, and it was also the headquarters of the Greek Presidency of the European Union in 1983, 1994 and 2003.

The Zappeion, which is now used as a conference and exhibition facility, is in central Athens, in an extension of the National Park near the Parliament building, Syntagma (Constitution) Square, the Presidential Mansion, and the Maximos Mansion, which houses the offices of the Prime Minister. It is also close to important archaeological sites, such as the unified archaeological zone around the Acropolis and the Columns of Olympian Zeus - an area made easily accessible from the city's central streets and the mass transit system.

Facade view

Aerial view

Zappas died in 1865, leaving his immense fortune for the benefit of the modern Olympics with the purpose to be held every four years "in the manners of our ancestors". According to his will, his body was buried in Romania, and his skull at the new Olympic building located in Zappeion, Athens. Visitors can still see the inscription at Zappeion: "Here lies the head".