Acropolis Museum to Open in Greece This September
Balkan Travellers
The 25,000-sqaure-metre building was designed by Bernard Tschumi, a French-Swiss architect. Located just a couple of hundred metres from the Parthenon, the museum has three levels. The top level, made of glass, contains an area reserved for the Elgin Marbles.
As BalkanTravellers.com reported at the beginning of the month, since the 1980s Greece has continuously argued – to no avail, that the so-called Elgin Marbles currently owned by and displayed at the British Museum in London, should be returned to Greece as their rightful owner.
Before the return of the original marble friezes, media reported, Greece will display some of the marbles that remained in the country alongside plaster copies of those located in London.
The museum was to be completed for the 2004 Olympics in Greece, but according to The New York Times bureaucratic and technical issues delayed its completion.
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Greece
Espresso Gains Popularity in Greece
10 June 2009 | Espresso is increasing winning over the hearts (and palates) of Greeks and making its way to becoming the caffeine-loving nation’s favourite type of coffee.
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Curiosity Chest
Balkans
Churches in Greece and Romania Included in 2010 World Monument Watch
The churches of Lesvos, Greece, and those of southern Transylvania in Romania’s Sibiu are the two cultural heritage sites from the Balkans included in this year’s World Monument Watch of places threatened by neglect, demolition or disaster. Full Story
Useful Reads
Balkans
Through Another Europe (2009) | Edited by Andrew Hammond
When Henry Blount journeyed through Bosnia in the 1630s, two things struck him: the purity of the water and the great height of the Bosnians, which, he noted, “made me suppose them the offspring of those old Germans noted by Tacitus and Caesar for their huge size.”
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Music
Greece
Unbearable Nostalgia, After Theo Angelopoulos
Eleni Karaindrou | Elegy of the Uprooting |Crammed/Dyukyan Meloman, 2006
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Photogalleries
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A Perfect Shot
In Homo Urbanus Europeanus, exhibited May 9-24 in front of the National Theatre in Sofia, Jean-Marc Caracci presents his photographs of people in the urban environment of European capitals.
RED&WHITE SOFIA. On the 1st of March Bulgarians say goodbye to the winter. They buy each other red&white threads to carry around until they see a stork and spring can begin. Photography by Lode Desmet
BULGARIA D'OR: The Bulgarian countryside, patinated with the noble golden dust of the autumn. Photographs by Lode Desmet
360 degrees Bulgaria, an exhibition by photographer Alexandar Ivanov, is on display at the Sea Garden in Varna until August 28. It will be shown at Plovdiv’s Central Square from Sept 5.
The exhibition Photographs of a Trip Through Bulgaria by Hungarian photographer András Balla can be seen in Sofia's Hungarian Cultural Institute, at Aksakov 16 Street, until August 22
Instant Spring in Sofia | Photographs by Lode Desmet
Off-the-season Beauty of Bulgaria's Black Sea Coast | Photographs by Adelina Iliev
Bulgaria's Northern Black Sea Coast
Photographs by Albena Shkodrova
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