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<p>Chalkidiki, Agios Nikolaos -- Χαλκιδική, Αγιος Νικόλαος</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/111emergency/">111 Emergency</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/111emergency/55485037898/" title="Athens - May 2026"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55485037898_433058787b_m.jpg" width="240" height="138" alt="Athens - May 2026" /></a></p>

<p>Emmantina Hotel and historic abandoned villa<br />
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Identification: Emmantina Hotel, 33 Poseidonos Avenue, Glyfada, with the abandoned historic villa immediately alongside.<br />
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The modern hotel on the right is clearly marked Hotel Emmantina. Its established address is 33 Poseidonos Avenue, Glyfada, just inland from the coast.<br />
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The dilapidated mansion on the left is actually the more historically interesting subject. Local architectural-history research identifies it as a surviving early Glyfada villa at approximately 10 Meropis Street and Poseidonos Avenue, dating from the period when the coastal suburb began developing after the 1920s. It later became the Easy Rider rock bar during the 1980s and has stood abandoned for decades.<br />
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Its classical columns, tiled roof, balconies and overgrown garden are a remarkable contrast with the modern hotel beside it.</p>

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<p>EKAB Mercedes-Benz Sprinter ambulance<br />
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Identification: EKAB / ΕΚΑΒ Mercedes-Benz Sprinter emergency ambulance.<br />
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This is an excellent emergency-services photograph despite the palm trunk briefly crossing the centre of the vehicle.<br />
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The yellow ambulance carries the Greek markings ΕΚΑΒ, for Ethniko Kentro Amesis Voitheias — the National Centre for Emergency Care — together with ΕΣΥ, representing Greece's National Health System.<br />
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The number 166 is prominently displayed on the front side panel. This is the traditional nationwide telephone number for requesting EKAB emergency medical assistance, and official EKAB material instructs callers to use 166 when urgent pre-hospital care and an ambulance are required.<br />
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The modern high-roof Mercedes-Benz Sprinter configuration provides considerably more patient-treatment space than older Greek ambulances.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/111emergency/">111 Emergency</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>New Zealand Police kiwi and the Acropolis<br />
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A very effective travel portrait using a New Zealand Police-themed kiwi soft toy as the foreground subject, with the Acropolis deliberately rendered out of focus behind it.<br />
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The shallow depth of field concentrates attention on the kiwi's police cap, sunglasses and high-visibility vest while leaving the unmistakable form of the Parthenon sufficiently recognisable in the background.<br />
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The contrast works particularly well: a small piece of New Zealand character photographed against one of Greece's most famous landmarks.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/tsiokani/">MariaTsiokani</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Gazi, Mount Aigaleo and Event Lighting<br />
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Identification: Western Athens at night with searchlight beams<br />
Probable source: Technopolis City of Athens, Gazi<br />
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This wider composition provides more context for the previous photograph.<br />
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Residential and commercial buildings fill the foreground, their warm window and architectural lighting contrasting with the much cooler blue beams above.<br />
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The dark mountain ridge stretching almost the entire width of the background is Mount Aigaleo, part of the natural basin that surrounds metropolitan Athens.<br />
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Technopolis lies in the former Athens gasworks district at Pireos Street in Gazi, west of the Psyrri viewpoint. The site has been converted into one of Athens' principal cultural and concert venues.<br />
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On this particular evening it was hosting Rizes Fest, whose 23 May programme began at 18:00 and continued with successive performances through the evening.<br />
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The combination of location, direction and time makes Technopolis the most convincing explanation for the beams.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/dmtnyc/">doug turetsky</a> posted a photo:</p>

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<p>Parthenon, Erechtheion and Acropolis Lift<br />
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Identification: Central Acropolis monuments from the north<br />
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This closer image gives a particularly clear relationship between the Parthenon, the Erechtheion and the modern accessibility lift.<br />
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The Erechtheion occupies the foreground of the summit, appearing almost nested inside the much larger outline of the Parthenon behind it.<br />
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The Parthenon is a Doric temple, although it also incorporates important Ionic features. The Erechtheion, by contrast, is fundamentally Ionic and is famous for its irregular plan, reflecting the numerous sacred traditions associated with its site.<br />
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The pink cloud at upper right contrasts beautifully with the warm limestone and marble.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/lukedrich_photography/">lukedrich_photography</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/lukedrich_photography/55484074775/" title="Athens"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55484074775_37ff37cfa2_m.jpg" width="240" height="135" alt="Athens" /></a></p>

<p>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens</a><br />
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Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres (15.04 square miles).<br />
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Athens is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. According to Greek mythology, the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, but modern scholars generally agree that the goddess took her name after the city. Classical Athens was one of the most powerful city-states in ancient Greece. It was a centre for Hellenistic democracy, the arts, education and philosophy, and was highly influential throughout the European continent, particularly in Ancient Rome. For this reason it is often regarded as the cradle of Western civilisation and the birthplace of democracy in its own right independently from the rest of Greece.<br />
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In modern times Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece. It is a Beta (+) – status global city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and is one of the biggest economic centres in Southeast Europe. It also has a large financial sector, and its port Piraeus is both the second-busiest passenger port in Europe and the thirteenth-largest container port in the world. The Athens metropolitan area extends beyond its administrative municipal city limits as well as its urban agglomeration, with a population of 3,638,281 in 2021 over an area of 2,928.717 km2 (1,131 sq mi).<br />
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The heritage of the Classical Era is still evident in the city, represented by ancient monuments, and works of art, the most famous of these being the Parthenon, considered a key landmark of early Western culture. Athens retains Roman, Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history. Athens contains two World Heritage Sites recognised by UNESCO: the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery. Athens is home to several museums and cultural institutions, such as the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities, the Acropolis Museum, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Benaki Museum and the Byzantine and Christian Museum. Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics, making it one of five cities to have hosted the Summer Olympics on more than one occasion.<br />
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Additional Foreign Language Tags:<br />
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(Greece) "اليونان" "希腊" "Grèce" "Griechenland" "יוון" "ग्रीस" "ギリシャ" "그리스" "Греция" "Grecia" "Hellenic Republic" "Ελληνική Δημοκρατία"<br />
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(Athens) "أثينا" "雅典" "Athènes" "Athen" "אתונה" "एथेंस" "アテネ" "아테네" "Афины" "Atenas"<br />
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(Europe) Europa "European Union" "أوروبا" "欧洲" "אירופה" "यूरोप" "ヨーロッパ" "유럽" "Европа"</p>

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<p>Source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens</a><br />
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Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens (also City of Athens), which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres (15.04 square miles).<br />
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Athens is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400 years, and its earliest human presence beginning somewhere between the 11th and 7th millennia BC. According to Greek mythology, the city was named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom, but modern scholars generally agree that the goddess took her name after the city. Classical Athens was one of the most powerful city-states in ancient Greece. It was a centre for Hellenistic democracy, the arts, education and philosophy, and was highly influential throughout the European continent, particularly in Ancient Rome. For this reason it is often regarded as the cradle of Western civilisation and the birthplace of democracy in its own right independently from the rest of Greece.<br />
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In modern times Athens is a large cosmopolitan metropolis and central to economic, financial, industrial, maritime, political and cultural life in Greece. It is a Beta (+) – status global city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and is one of the biggest economic centres in Southeast Europe. It also has a large financial sector, and its port Piraeus is both the second-busiest passenger port in Europe and the thirteenth-largest container port in the world. The Athens metropolitan area extends beyond its administrative municipal city limits as well as its urban agglomeration, with a population of 3,638,281 in 2021 over an area of 2,928.717 km2 (1,131 sq mi).<br />
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The heritage of the Classical Era is still evident in the city, represented by ancient monuments, and works of art, the most famous of these being the Parthenon, considered a key landmark of early Western culture. Athens retains Roman, Byzantine and a smaller number of Ottoman monuments, while its historical urban core features elements of continuity through its millennia of history. Athens contains two World Heritage Sites recognised by UNESCO: the Acropolis of Athens and the medieval Daphni Monastery. Athens is home to several museums and cultural institutions, such as the National Archeological Museum, featuring the world's largest collection of ancient Greek antiquities, the Acropolis Museum, the Museum of Cycladic Art, the Benaki Museum and the Byzantine and Christian Museum. Athens was the host city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108 years later it hosted the 2004 Summer Olympics, making it one of five cities to have hosted the Summer Olympics on more than one occasion.<br />
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Additional Foreign Language Tags:<br />
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(Greece) "اليونان" "希腊" "Grèce" "Griechenland" "יוון" "ग्रीस" "ギリシャ" "그리스" "Греция" "Grecia" "Hellenic Republic" "Ελληνική Δημοκρατία"<br />
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(Athens) "أثينا" "雅典" "Athènes" "Athen" "אתונה" "एथेंस" "アテネ" "아테네" "Афины" "Atenas"<br />
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(Europe) Europa "European Union" "أوروبا" "欧洲" "אירופה" "यूरोप" "ヨーロッパ" "유럽" "Европа"</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/martin-m-miles/55482274522/" title="Kastro-Kyllini - Chlemoutsi Castle"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55482274522_10fee1ced2_m.jpg" width="145" height="240" alt="Kastro-Kyllini - Chlemoutsi Castle" /></a></p>

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Chlemoutsi Castle is a High Medieval Crusader castle in the far west of the Peloponnese. It is one of the largest and best-preserved castles in Greece.<br />
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After the ‘Latin’ crusaders had captured Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, the French knights occupied the Byzantine Peloponnese. Geoffrey I of Villehardouin, as a result of a dispute between him and the clergy of the Principality confiscated the church’s property and had Chlemoutsi Castle built between 1220 and 1223.<br />
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Following the conquest of Constantinople (1453), the Turks captured Chlemoutsi in 1460. During the Turkish-Venetian Wars, the castle repeatedly changed hands between the two sides. From 1687 to 1715, Chlemoutsi was held by the Venetians. From 1715 to 1821, the Ottomans were once again had the castle, although it gradually lost its strategic importance due to the introduction of new weaponry. During the Greek Revolution, on 10 November 1825, it was defended by the inhabitants who had taken refuge there against the siege by the troops of the Egyptian general Ibrahim Pasha, who captured Chlemoutsi.<br />
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Today the castle houses a museum.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/111emergency/">111 Emergency</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/111emergency/55483143926/" title="Athens - May 2026"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55483143926_744a7b0d01_m.jpg" width="240" height="115" alt="Athens - May 2026" /></a></p>

<p>Wide Northern Face of the Acropolis<br />
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Identification: Parthenon, northern wall and western Acropolis<br />
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This photograph balances the monument with the enormous natural rock formation beneath it.<br />
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The Parthenon occupies the upper centre, but the limestone cliffs and fortification walls account for almost as much of the composition. This makes the defensive character of the Acropolis much clearer than close photographs of the temples alone.<br />
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The long northern wall follows the edge of the plateau while the accessibility lift rises toward the summit. To the far right the western entrance area and surviving structures of the Propylaia begin to enter the frame.<br />
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The dramatic evening illumination is especially effective on the rough cliff face, highlighting the contrast between the natural rock, ancient masonry and carefully finished temple architecture.</p>

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<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/111emergency/">111 Emergency</a> posted a photo:</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/111emergency/55482151452/" title="Athens - May 2026"><img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/55482151452_7ff45a2699_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="Athens - May 2026" /></a></p>

<p>Parthenon, Erechtheion and Acropolis Lift<br />
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Identification: Northern elevation of the Parthenon, Erechtheion and modern accessibility lift<br />
Location: Acropolis of Athens<br />
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This is one of the most informative photographs in the sequence.<br />
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The great horizontal colonnade across the skyline is the Parthenon, constructed during the age of Pericles and dedicated to Athena Parthenos. Immediately in front stands the considerably smaller Erechtheion, with its projecting North Porch.<br />
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Descending almost vertically down the cliff in the foreground is the modern Acropolis accessibility lift. Installed as part of the accessibility improvements completed in 2020, the inclined lift travels approximately 25 metres up the northern side of the rock and terminates on the plateau just north of the Erechtheion.<br />
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The photograph is particularly valuable because it records ancient and modern engineering in the same frame: Classical temples, ancient defensive masonry and a contemporary system allowing visitors with limited mobility to reach the summit.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/people/gtheoch/">gtheoch</a> posted a photo:</p>

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