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8 great things to do in Athens

Few experiences in life are as moving as ascending the Acropolis of Athens and coming face-to-face with the Parthenon. Despite the climb, the Mediterranean heat, the crowds and the polyglot of tour guides holding forth, to stand here is to step out of the present and marvel at the past, at the generation who conceived and executed proportions so graceful that not even the exoskeleton of scaffolding...

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