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The fastest and easiest way to get around Athens is the Metro. It's brand new, spotless, safe, inexpensive and waiting time is minimal, from my experience I never had to wait more than 5-10 minutes at the most.

The Athens metro is one of the few public facilities in Greece that is totally accessible to people with disabilities. Once they get to a Metro station, that is, how they get there is another story.

Ticket prices are 0.70€ for a single ride, but you can also purchase a daily ticket for 2.90€ or a weekly ticket for 10€. The last two can be used on all public transportation means in Athens except for the train that takes you to the airport which costs 8€ for one person or 12€ for a 2-person group ticket. There are discounts for students, senior citizens, etc.

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1. Propylaia 2. Propylaia 3. Parthenon 4. Parthenon 5. Parthenon 6. Parthenon 7. Parthenon & Erectheion 8. Erectheion 9. Erectheion

Municipal museum of Ioannina: Entrance to the compound

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Municipal museum of Ioannina: Front side, exterior

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Municipal museum of Ioannina: The restored main hall

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Built in 1618 on the Byzantine castle of Ioannina, the Aslan Pasha Mosque is the most widely recognized architectural landmark of the city. It served as a place of worship for the Muslim population of Ioannina for over three centuries (until 1924) and in 1933 was converted to the Municipal Museum of the city.

It includes the restored main hall of the mosque and its exhibits reflect the diverse ethnic character of the city's past. It is divided in three sections, each dedicated to one of the ethnic groups that coexisted in the city: Greek, Turkish, and Jewish.

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Architect: Mnesicles, commissioned by Pericles.
Date of construction: 437-432 B.C
Materials: Pentelic marble, darker Eleusinian marble, structural iron.
The Propylaia were built as a monumental entrance to the Acropolis rock. It is an impressive building that surrounds the natural entrance to the plateau, and one approached it in ancient times through an inclining ramp that led visitors straight through the steps in front of the Propylaia.
Unlike other Greek sanctuaries of Ancient Greece, the Acropolis was built on a master plan with the buildings related to one another. Nowhere is this more evident than in the relationship between the Propylaia and the Parthenon. Several subtle features associate the two buildings. Both are structures with strong Doric flavor, although both incorporate Ionic columns in their interiors. They are also related in size, (the Propylaia width being equal to the length of the Parthenon), and in proportional ratios (4:9 for the Parthenon and 3:7 for the Propylaia). Both buildings are oriented similarly from North to South, with the Propylaia being a little to the East of the Parthenon Axis. © Ancient-Greece.org Republished by permission

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Parthenon. Its stylistic conventions have become the paradigm of Classical architecture, and its style has influenced architecture to this day. The Parthenon epitomizes all the ideals of Greek thought during the apogee of the Classical era through artistic means. The idealism of the Greek way of living, the attention to detail, as well as the understanding of a mathematically explained harmony in the natural world, were concepts that in every Athenian’s eyes set them apart from the barbarians. These ideals are represented in the perfect proportions of the building, in its intricate architectural elements, and in the anthropomorphic statues that adorned it.

The Athenian citizens were proud of their cultural identity, and conscious of the historical magnitude of their ideas. They believed that they were civilized among barbarians, and that their cultural and political achievements were bound to alter the history of all civilized people. The catalyst for all their accomplishments was the development of a system of governance the likes of which the world had never seen: Democracy.

Democracy, arguably the epitome of the Athenian way of thinking, was at center stage while the Parthenon was built. This was a direct democracy where every citizen had a voice in the common issues through the Assembly that met on the Pnyx hill next to the Acropolis forty times per year to decide on all matters of policy, domestic or foreign.
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Architects: Iktinos and Kallikrates.
Date of construction: 447-432 B.C.
Cost of Construction: 469 talents (1 talent = cost to build one trireme, the most advanced warship of the era, also equal to one months salary of the ship's crew. The annual gross income of the City of Athens at that time was 1,000 talents)
Length: 69.50 m. (227.96 ft)
Width: 30.88 m (101.29 ft)
Materials: Pentelic marble, limestone foundation