Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #12 in Athens, Greece

The Greek Film Archive is a nonprofit film archive organization located in Athens, Greece, whose goal is to produce and spread Greek and international films. It's a part of International Federation of Film Archives and a founding member of the European Film Gateway. It is also co-operating with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

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Metaxourgio Square is a square in Athens and the most historic of the homonymous district. It is located at the intersection of Lenorman and Achilles streets, about the center of the district. It is important to note for those who are not familiar with the city of Athens that Metaxourgio Square should not be confused with Karaiskakis Square, the largest and most famous in the area where the metro station is located. The square became known by this name from a silk fabric plant founded there in 1835, which over time remained for the whole area. The plant was installed at the unfinished mansion of Prince George Kantakouzenos, which still exists today on streets of Alexandrou, Myllerou and Yatrakou. From Metaxourgio Square, the carnival attractions of the old city of Athens, such as the Gaitanaki, also started. Once the square was twice as high as today. But the widening of Achilles Street, which was a small narrow road, with the aim of communicating Athens with the Athens -Corinth Highway, resulted in about half the square disappearing.

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Karaiskaki Square is an important urban hub of Athens. It is located 500 meters west of Omonia Square, with which it communicates through Agiou Konstantinou Street. Karaiskaki Square is located in the district of Metaxourgeio and below it is bounded the homonymous station of metro line 2. As the square is the largest and most famous of the district, many mistakenly call it Metaxourgeio Square, which is actually two blocks to the west, at the junction of Lenorman and Achilleos streets.

Wikipedia: Πλατεία Καραϊσκάκη (Αθήνα) (EL)

The National Theatre of Greece is based in Athens, Greece.

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Kostas Perrikos was a Greek Air Force officer and leader of the PEAN resistance movement in World War II. He is the father of the UN arms control Commissioner Dimitris Perrikos.

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George Canning was a British Tory statesman. He held various senior cabinet positions under numerous prime ministers, including two important terms as Foreign Secretary, finally becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the last 119 days of his life, from April to August 1827.

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The Athens Polytechnic uprising occurred in November 1973 as a massive student demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. It began on 14 November 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt, and ended in bloodshed in the early morning of 17 November after a series of events starting with a tank crashing through the gates of the Athens Polytechnic.

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The Hellenic Motor Museum is a car museum in Athens. It is owned by the Theodore Charagionis Foundation and opened in March 2011. The museum is situated in central Athens near the National Archaeological Museum, on the three top floors of the Athenian Capitol shopping mall.

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Ioannis Tsigantes-Svoronos was a Greek military officer. A retired officer of the pro-Venizelist movement of 1935, he developed intense resistance activity during the Occupation within the framework of the organization Midas 614. He was killed by the Italian occupation authorities in Athens on January 14, 1943.

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Egypt Square was a historic square at the old northern end of the 1st municipal unit of Athens, on the way to the former country destination of Patissia. The square was located between Patission Street and Pedion tou Areos, close to the business and educational buildings erected by many Greek Egyptians, above Omonoia and along the road.

Wikipedia: Πλατεία Αιγύπτου (Αθήνα) (EL)

The Epigraphical Museum of Athens, Greece, is unique in Greece and the largest of its kind in the world. Its collection comprises 14,078, mostly Greek, inscriptions, which cover the period from early historical times to the Late Roman period, primarily in Greece. It is situated in the south wing of the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. It comprises an internal and external courtyard (atrium), a lobby, eleven rooms, a large hypostyle Pi-shaped corridor, a gallery, offices, a laboratory for the conservation of inscribed stone monuments and lavatories. Only the courtyards, lobby and four rooms are open to the public, while the rest is reserved for researchers. A full photographic archive of the collection is being assembled for future visitors.

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José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's successful struggle for independence from the Spanish Empire who served as the Protector of Peru. Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes, in modern-day Argentina, he left the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata at the early age of seven to study in Málaga, Spain.

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