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Associated Press: Athens is cleaning its all-marble Olympic stadium for the first time in more than a century. “Athens’ U-shaped Panathenaic Stadium — made entirely of white marble — is getting its first systematic cleaning in more than a century. Rebuilt for the first modern Olympics in 1896, the site is the ceremonial send-off point for the Olympic flame, including for Los Angeles 2028.”

Historic Athens Near Syntagma and the National Garden
Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 @ Athens, Greece
https://www.rovingsun.com/2025/04/16/historic-athens-near-syntagma-and-the-national-garden/

After arriving in Athens, we checked into the Grande Bretagne. We watched the guard change at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier and walked...

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Motorbikes wait at the traffic lights at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. Bikes were popular in the city, with riders weaving in and out of slow-moving four wheeled traffic.

https://inphotos.org/2024/06/18/passenger-bikes/

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At the Olympics

The Panathenaic Stadium was not very crowded when we visited, but I immediately noticed a small group of young people taking photos of each other and added them to a photo of my own. :)

https://inphotos.org/2024/06/06/at-the-olympics/

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Cars weren’t going anywhere fast in front of the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece, the day we visited. A traffic jam extended far off in every direction.

An old Renault 4 caught my eye. An anarchism among all the modern cars around. In a city like Athens, where the ancient past seamlessly coexists with the present, the Renault 4 seemed oddly fitting.

https://inphotos.org/2024/05/30/a-renault-4-at-the-panathenaic-stadium/

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