AIESEC WeGrow '13 Official Study Tour Booklet

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This is the source of all the information concerning the

educational & entertaining tour that will held after the end of

WeGrow 2013 Conference on the 30th 31stof October.


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On the 1rst day of the study tour organized under

WeGrow13, the delegates will have the unique opportunity to

walk where the ancient Greeks were walking and see what they

were seeing, but at the same time they will have the change to get

a glimpse of how modern Athens looks like.

Our exploration of mystical and intriguing past and present of the

city of Athens will begin at 10:00 the hostel that the delegates are

going to spend the night, situated in the heart of Athens.

Firstly, lets go through the agenda and afterwards we are

going to present all the sights that we are going to visit. Our

schedule included long strolls at the Athenian streets because we

believe that the best way to see a city is by walking.

So put your comfortable shoes on and let everything else to us!

8:00 9:00 Travel To Site

09:00 10:00 Breakfast

10:30 11:00 Walk to National Archeological Museum

11:00 12:30 Visit National Archeological Museum

12:30 13:00 Walk to Acropolis through Monastiraki, Thiseio & Plaka

13:00 14:30 Visit Acropolis

15:00 15:30 Walk to Acropolis Museum, Visit Odeon of Herodes Atticus15:30 17:00 Visit Acropolis Museum & Lunch

17:00 18:00 Walk & Visit Hadrians Arc, Temple of Olympian Zeus &

Kallimarmaro Stadium

18:00 18:30 Walk to Greek Parliament & Monument of the Unknown

Soldier through Zappeion Megaron & National Garden

18:30 19:30 Greek Parliament & Suntagma Square & Dinner

19:30 20:00 Walk & Visit Athens University historical building

20:00 20:30 Return to the hostel22:00 Study Tour Day 1 Party


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The Acropolis of Athens or Citadel of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world.Although there are

many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as

The Acropolis without qualification. Acropolis = akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city.

The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock that rises 150 m (490 ft) above sea level in the city of Athens, with a surface

area of about 3 hectares. It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the first

Athenian king.The entrance to the Acropolis was a monumental gateway called the Propylaea. To the south of the

entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike. A bronze statue of Athena, sculpted by Phidias, originally stood at its

centre. At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos (Athena the Virgin).

East of the entrance and north of the Parthenon is the temple known as the Erechtheum.

South of the platform that forms the top of the Acropolis there are also the remains of an outdoor theatre called

Theatre of Dionysus.A few hundred metres away, there is the now partially reconstructed Theatre of Herodes

Atticus.

All the valuable ancient artifacts are situated in the New Acropolis Museum, which resides 300 meters on the

southeast of the Rock of the Acropolis, on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street.

Akropolis & New Akropolis Museum

The area of Plaka is one of the most attractive

districts of Athens. Under the slopes of the Acropolis

Plaka attracts all the visitors of Athens with itsneoclassical mansions and houses with roofs from red

tiles, its small winding roads with their steps,

balconies with bougainvilleas ,geraniums and

jasmines. Plaka is called many times in the Greek

literature as the neighbourhood of the Gods and that

because over Plaka dominates the sacred rock of the

Acropolis "the sacred rock of the gods" who made the

modern Athenians with the same humour like their

Ancient ancestors, to personalise the Olympian gods

having fun like them in Plaka with lots of Retsina wine

and Dance.


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The Zappeion Megaron of Athens, is designed

by the famous Danish architect Theophil Freiherr von

Hansen in 1878, the Zappeion Megaron is named after

Evangelos Zappas, a businessman from Epirus who

played a major role in starting the Zappian Olympic

Games, which laid the path for the modern Olympic

Games The Zappeion building is a tribute to this great

man who brought the Olympic Games back into the

modern world.

The Monument of the Unknown Soldier was

designed by the architect Emmanuel Lazaridis in 1930

and unveiled on the 25 of March 1932. The main

element of the monument is a large bas - relief

representing a dying Greek heavily armed soldier.

It is guarded 24 hours a day by two Evzoni (or

Tsoliades), members of the Presidential Guard , an

elite, specially chosen unit of the Greek Army.

The National Garden has small ponds, narrow

paths and tall trees which offer plenty of oxygen and

whose shade offers a welcoming place for people to

sit and relax. While walking down the many narrow

paths inside the garden you have the feeling that you

are in the countryside and not just a few feet awayfrom the center of Athens. This green oasis does not

only have a historically notable name, but also a

complex and interesting history.

Zappeion Megaron & National Garden


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The main building of the Academy is a neoclassical

building between Panepistimiou Street and

Akadimias Street in the centre of Athens. The

building was designed as part of an architectural

"trilogy" in 1859 by the Danish architect Theophil

Hansen, along with the University and the National

LibraryThe sculptures were undertaken by the

Greek Leonidas Drosis, while the murals and

paintings by the Austrian Christian Griepenkerl.

On 20 March 1887, the building was

delivered by Ziller to the Greek Prime Minister,

Charilaos Trikoupis. The building was used for

housing the Numismatic Museum in 1890, and in

1914 the Byzantine Museum and the State Archives.

Finally, in 1926, the building was handed over to the

newly-established Academy of Athens.

Athens University historical building


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On the 2nd day of the study tour organized under WeGrow

13an excursion at the beautiful area of Peloponnese will beorganized; allowing the delegates to leave behind the busy big

city life and what they learned at the conference, chill and hang

out with the AIESEC they met there.

At the same they will have the chance to visit well-known

breathtaking sights such as the Corinth Canal, Nafplion &

Epidaurus. Our busses will leave the hostel at 8 oclock (you

better get to bed early) in the morning in order to ensure that wewill have plenty of time to spend visiting our sublime spots.

But as we use to say first of all lets go through the agenda

and more info on the sights are coming up next. Again, dont

forget to wear comfortable shoes cause a bit of walking is

involved here too.

9:00 10:00 Travel To Corinth Canal

10:00 10:30 Visit Corinth Canal & Breakfast

10:30 11:15 Travel to Epidaurus11:15 - 13:30 Visit Epidaurus

13:30 14:00 Travel to Nafplio

14:00 16:00 Visit the Castle of Nafplio (Palamidi) & Lunch

16:00 17:30 Walk around Akronauplia

17:30 19:30 Free time at Naufplion

19:30 20:00 Get the buses to Athens

20:00 21:30 Return to Athens


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The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts

through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, The

builders dug the canal through the Isthmus at sea level. The Canal is 6.4 kilometres in length and 21.3 metres.

The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD. It

was completed in 1893 and it is now used mainly for tourist traffic.

In this modern town of the 10.000

population the whole beauty is seemed simple

painting. Nafplio there was the first capital town

of the younger Greece and of today of Nome

Argolida. It is 147 Km. away from Athens.

With the exit from Argos is beginning to form

towards your eyes the unique in whole the world

icon of the town with the castle - symbol to glass

on the water of the Gulf.

The most ancient town of the greek place, which

according to the mythology, was founded by him,

who first thought the idea of the organization of

the humans to towns, Thiseas, building theprehistoric town, Nafplia

Corinth Canal

Nafplion


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Epidaurus

Epidavros is the best preserved theatre n

the whole of Greece. It was the work of the architect

Polyklitos Junior (4th century B.C.), built of

limestone, it can seat 12,000 spectators.

Every summer it comes alive. Attending a

performance of ancient drama in this theater is

almost a mystical experience. Never to be forgotten.

At Epidaurus the actors dont need to shout or speak

loudly because the acoustics are so good that the

merest whisper can be heard in the last row.


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