I see why they call Edinburgh the Athens of the North.
Bloody hell Athens was small back then.
Do you know what they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?
Bloody hell Athens was small back then.
Amazing city, I lived in Athens for 5 months during my internship at Interamerican.
big difference from Holland!
I loved the food and the people.
Thank you for posting this in such good resolution! I saw this photo in tiny in a magazine on the plane on my way to Athens a week ago. So awesome to find this here and being able to zoom in! Thanks a lot!
I definitely been there with my girl Kassandra. But is was fortified with guards.
You are already on Crete with Iraklion and Chania.
That to me is a separate vacation. I did a week in Athens and then a week in Crete.
Almost doesn’t seem like the same vacation
I get what you are saying , but I didn’t go to north or to the pellaponisus, so I can’t say there isn’t anything to see.
I remember walking around this area (all tourists and locals do ofc). Definitely worth it. Greece is such a beautiful country, next time I’m there I’ll definitely visit Meteora and other parts I missed on my first trip. I just wish Santorini wasn’t so trendy and full of shitty tourists (those wannabe instagramers) from the US/UK otherwise I’d visit it too.
The Academy of Athens, the last one?
Where is the now pic
This is obviously fake. In Assassins Creed Odyssey Athens is already colored.
Would be interesting to see a modern picture of the same location.
Is there a word for missing places you never visited?
I hardly know anything about Athens in the 50s, but it seems to be fascinating and this picture makes me think of a certain novel. If you’d like to get a glimpse on the 50s’ tourists experience and like a moving story I recommend reading Homo Faber by Max Frisch. It gave me a glimpse of the 50s‘ zeitgeist. And made me wish I could visit Greece in the 50s, just like many other fundamentally changed places.
to one of the most densely populated cities in europe in 70 years 😮
Athens didn’t have any colors back then
Them Greeks got mad busy with construction the last 7 decades..
Highly doubt this is in 1954
That lady just clocked off her Saint job at the Sanctuary.
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I can see Aristotle and Plato in the background 🙂
Would love to see another shot from this angle just to see how much its changed.
Are you sure this is from 1954? This looks like it’s close to Psyri, and a lot of the buildings there were def built before then.
Looks like a film scene.
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Would’ve been nice if the view had remained the same…
beautiful town
The old Athens is better than the new Athens.
The photo is taken within the ancient Agora site limits, so we can not see the city that in the 1951 census had already more than 1.3 million people.
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i’ve been in Athens in 2010, my heart broke as everything was so ugly and dirty 🙁
That’s Malena walking home
It remembers me of the nowadays southern Italy countrysides, it’s beautiful!
imagine that, 2000-3000 years ago. probably looked pretty much the same. fun to think of.
That is an amazing picture. I was listening to Stuff the British Stole on the [Parthenon Marbles](https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/stuff-the-british-stole/losing-your-marbles/13572980), and this picture is a perfect accompaniment.
I see why they call Edinburgh the Athens of the North.
Bloody hell Athens was small back then.
Do you know what they say of the Acropolis where the Parthenon is?
Bloody hell Athens was small back then.
Amazing city, I lived in Athens for 5 months during my internship at Interamerican.
big difference from Holland!
I loved the food and the people.
Thank you for posting this in such good resolution! I saw this photo in tiny in a magazine on the plane on my way to Athens a week ago. So awesome to find this here and being able to zoom in! Thanks a lot!
I definitely been there with my girl Kassandra. But is was fortified with guards.
You are already on Crete with Iraklion and Chania.
That to me is a separate vacation. I did a week in Athens and then a week in Crete.
Almost doesn’t seem like the same vacation
I get what you are saying , but I didn’t go to north or to the pellaponisus, so I can’t say there isn’t anything to see.
I remember walking around this area (all tourists and locals do ofc). Definitely worth it. Greece is such a beautiful country, next time I’m there I’ll definitely visit Meteora and other parts I missed on my first trip. I just wish Santorini wasn’t so trendy and full of shitty tourists (those wannabe instagramers) from the US/UK otherwise I’d visit it too.
The Academy of Athens, the last one?
Where is the now pic
This is obviously fake. In Assassins Creed Odyssey Athens is already colored.
Would be interesting to see a modern picture of the same location.
Is there a word for missing places you never visited?
I hardly know anything about Athens in the 50s, but it seems to be fascinating and this picture makes me think of a certain novel. If you’d like to get a glimpse on the 50s’ tourists experience and like a moving story I recommend reading Homo Faber by Max Frisch. It gave me a glimpse of the 50s‘ zeitgeist. And made me wish I could visit Greece in the 50s, just like many other fundamentally changed places.
to one of the most densely populated cities in europe in 70 years 😮
Athens didn’t have any colors back then
Them Greeks got mad busy with construction the last 7 decades..
Highly doubt this is in 1954
That lady just clocked off her Saint job at the Sanctuary.
Still better than modern Athens.
Bc?
They say of the acropolis where the parthenon is…
in color: http://i.piccy.info/i9/474ee3c869eb41945aba4bead69d99f3/1635800790/523286/1446800/output_12_.jpg
Wow no way