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University of Athens
08-06-2013 13:06The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens is located on Panepistimiou street and is part of the so-called architectural Neoclassical Ttrilogy along with the Academy of Athens and the National Library of Greece.
The building of the University of Athens is Christian Hansen's most famous work in Athens. The construction started in 1839 using the proceeds of a fund-raising campaign from Greeks at home and abroad. It was inaugurated in 1841, though not entirely completed until 1864 due to lack of funds.
The facade is of Ionian-style and the bases of the columns and the capitals of the entrance are perfect replicas of the equivalent found in the Propylaea of Acropolis. The wall-paintings on the facade were studied by the Bavarian painter Ral and executed by the Polish painter Lebietski.
Before the construction of this building, the University of Athens was founded in 1837, was housed in the residence of architects Stamatios Kleanthis and Eduard Schaubert, on the north slope of the Acropolis. It was the first University not only in the newly established Greek State but in all the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean in general. The building that housed the first University is now a museum, the Athens University Museum, on 5th Tholou Street in Plaka.
Before it was renamed to honour Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first chief of state of independent modern Greece, the university was known as the Othonian University after King Otto. Between 1895 and 1911, an average of one thousand new students matriculated each year, a number which increased to two thousand at the end of World War I. This resulted in the decision to introduce entrance examinations for all the faculties, beginning for the academic year 1927-28. During the 1960’s construction work began on the University Campus in the suburb of Ilissia.
By a ministerial decree of 1952, the building was identified as preserved monument "in need of special protection" according to the relevant 1950 Law.
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Aktaion - Writing gastronomic history since 1922
Like a relay race of three generations; a journey with happy days, sad days, joys, sorrows, wars, Occupation, poverty, hunger, deaths, volcanic eruptions, catastrophic earthquakes, flee for a better life, return, better days, feasts, tourism explosion, financial crises and so on… Everything has been indelibly inscribed on the walls of this small building, Aktaion. I feel grateful that life has given me the opportunity to hold the reins of Aktaion all the way to its centennial.
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Santorini has a secret... but we have to share it.
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