Parthenon visible for first time without…
The heavens have opened up.
Tourists to the Acropolis in Athens will soon find a way to take pleasure in a sight that hasn’t been visible for a very long time — a clear view of the Parthenon.
For the first time in 20 years, the scaffolding will come off the enduring temple to Athena, offering guests an unobstructed vista of the construction, the Smithsonian reported. The construction shell had been put in then as half of an ongoing marketing campaign by conservationists to restore and keep the Western facade.
Meanwhile, this latest unveiling will reportedly mark the first time in 200 years that the UNESCO heritage website has been utterly free of construction scaffolding of any variety.
Tourists to the Acropolis in Athens will soon find a way to take pleasure in a sight that hasn’t been visible for a very long time — a clear view of the Parthenon. Tom Maddick / SWNS
Parthenon temple on Acropolis hill with vacationers in the foreground, with scaffolding still visible inside its construction. AP
The Parthenon after the removing of scaffolding. Getty Images
“It is like they are seeing a different, a completely different monument,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said during an interview on Skai radio Friday, AP News reported.
The optimum vista will reportedly be the Western aspect, where the scaffolding’s removing will expose the street-level view.
Unfortunately, the scaffolding hiatus might be temporary as a new framework might be put in place along the Parthenon’s western aspect in around a month.
Fortunately, this time around, the scaffolding might be “lighter and aesthetically much closer to the logic of the monument,” Mendoni said.
Thankfully, the conservation project will only last until early next summer time, whereupon the shell will finally be taken down, and “people will be able to see it truly free,” he said.
Erected in the fifth century BC to honor Athens’ patron goddess Athena, the Parthenon is the centerpiece of the Acropolis, which is Greece’s most fashionable historic website with an estimated 4.5 million guests in 2024.
In 2023, the Greek authorities tried to curb crowding by imposing a customer cap, allowing just 20,000 people to go to the landmark each day.
Now, sightseers are now required to e book a timed entry slot and but a basic admission ticket for around $35 during the height summer time months.
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