A cache in
the heart of Athens.
The Ancient
Agora of Athens is the most well-known agora. It was one of the
most important parts of the ancient city of Athens. The Agora of
Athens, where ancient Greek democracy first came to life, provides
a wonderful opportunity to examine the commercial, political,
religious, and cultural life of one of the great cities of the
ancient world.
It was an area of political gatherings and commercial transactions,
the locus of the administration and of justice, a religious and
intellectual centre. The agora is already mentioned in
Homer’s epics, and represents, therefore, a constituent
element of the ancient Greek city.
The Agora of ancient Athens covers a rather large area NW of the
Acropolis, demarcated by the Areios Pagos on the south, the river
Heridanos on the north and by the hillock of Agoraios Kolonos on
the west.
Throughout its history, the Agora area is crossed by three streets.
The first street traverses the Agora square from the NW and leads
to the Acropolis. This street is later identified as the so-called
Panathenaic Way, the street used for the Panathinaea Festival
procession. During the Classical Period it is simply called
‘way’. The second street forks from the first street at
the north entrance of the Agora and follows a SE course along the
west street. The third street surrounds the square from the south,
connecting the other two streets. A wide triangular space is formed
between these three streets.
To go
there, the nearest Metro stations are Thesseion and
Monastiraki.
HAPPY
Geocaching!!!
The
Cache
The cache is a small Lock & Lock tupperware rapped with a
platic bag that initial contain an FTF award with a pin, a pencil,
a logbook, a stashnote in English and Greek and some items to
trade. See it
here.
The hiding place is in the wide area of ancient agora in the part
that you can enter without pay a ticket. The entrance in the main
area of Ancient Agora is free to public on Sundays but all the
other days you have to pay.
Please be very careful when searching for the cache because in
Greece the people are very curious!!!
Please, hide the cache carefully, exact as you found it.
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