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It's Moving Day -- er, Month -- at the Acropolis
I was irrationally excited for my first and thusfar only visit to the Acropolis eight years ago. A photograhy enthusiast, I was excited to get a great shot. And when I got there and scrambled up the hill to the top, what beautiful vista awaited me? Contrstruction. Yes, scaffolding, workers in yellow hats, orange fences ... it was hard to find a nice shot, but I took a few snaps nonethless and vowed to get better ones on my next trip, whenever that may be. So I can only imagine what kind of mayhem that's been ensuing at the Acropolis lately -- they're moving, according to this article. Obviously, they're not moving the actual Acropolis structure, but they're moving all the artifacts from the museum next door, down the hill to a new museum that's scheduled to open in 2008. In the meantime, expect cranes and lots of engineers on edge as they pray desparately that they don't have to make any claims on their $568.6 million insurance policy. The move is expected to last six weeks.
Filed under: Arts and Culture, Greece
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chi Oct 13th 2007 6:07AM
I was just there in May and was also disappointed by the scaffolding (if you were there 8 years ago...is the construction perpetual??) preventing anyone from getting close and making bummer photos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcbasson/532294731/
I didn't find the museum to be particularly interesting, either.
Martha Oct 12th 2007 11:48AM
Chi, when I was there they were getting ready for the Olympics in Athens. They made it seem like once that had come and gone that the construction would be finished -- but I guess not!!
Cheers,
Grant Martin Oct 12th 2007 8:19PM
Hey, that's my sister.