‘It’s a crime’: Concrete pathway at Acropolis stirs debate
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Greeks are divided over the restoration work at the millennia-old monument, but to some visitors the changes are praiseworthy.
Athens, Greece – A concrete controversy is raging over the Acropolis in Athens. Architects and archaeologists say that repaving pathways for visitors on the millennia-old monument with concrete is a barbaric intervention. “It’s a crime to wound the Rock, because it’s a monument,” architect Tasos Tanoulas told local newspaper EfSyn, using shorthand for the Acropolis, an ancient fortress and temple complex which towers 150 metres above Greece’s capital city.
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