The itinerary for the first day of the EuroXpro 2012 study tour includes visits to several important historical sites in Athens. In the morning, the group will visit the National Archaeological Museum and the Acropolis, including the Parthenon. In the afternoon, they will tour the Acropolis Museum, Hadrian's Arch, Temple of Olympian Zeus, and Panathenaic Stadium. The day will conclude with visits to the Greek Parliament, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and dinner.

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Welcome to official booklet of EuroXpro’s 2012 study tour ,
here you will be able to find out all the information concerning
the educational & entertain tour that will held before & after
EuroXpro 2012 Conference. The Study Tour will be split in 2
days; the 1rst day will be the 16th of March and the 2ond the 24th
of March.

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On the 1rst day of the study tour organized under
EUROXPRO ’12 the delegates will have the unique opportunity to
walk where the ancient Greeks were walking and see what they
were seeing, but at the same time they will have the change to
get a glimpse of how modern Athens looks like.
Our exploration of mystical and intriguing past and present of
the city of Athens will start at 10:30 the hostel that the delegates
are going to spend the night, situated in the heart of Athens.
Firstly, let’s go through the agenda and afterwards we are
going to present all the sights that we are going to visit. Our
schedule included long strolls at the Athenian streets because
we believe that the best way to see a city is by walking.
So put your comfortable shoes on and let everything else to us!
8:00 – 10:30 Travel To Site
10:30 – 11:00 Walk to National Archeological Museum
11:00 – 12:30 Visit National Archeological Museum
12:30 – 13:00 Walk to Acropolis through Monastiraki, Thiseio & Plaka
13:00 – 14:30 Visit Acropolis
15:00 – 15:30 Walk to Acropolis Museum, Visit Odeon of Herodes Atticus
15:30 – 17:00 Visit Acropolis Museum & Lunch
17:00 – 18:00 Walk & Visit Hadrian’s Arc, Temple of Olympian Zeus &
Kallimarmaro Stadium
18:00 – 18:30 Walk to Greek Parliament & Monument of the Unknown
Soldier through Zappeion Megaron & National Garden
18:30 – 19:30 Greek Parliament & Suntagma Square & Dinner
19:30 – 20:00 Walk & Visit Athens University historical building
20:00 – 20:30 Return to the hostel
22:00 Study Tour Day 1 Party

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National Archeological Museum
The National Archaeological Museum of
Athens is the largest archaeological museum in
Greece and one of the most important museums in
the world devoted to ancient Greek art.
It was founded at the end of the 19th century to
house and protect antiquities from all over Greece,
thus displaying their historical, cultural and
artistic value.
Monastiraki, Thiseio & Plaka
Monastiraki, (literally little monastery) is a
flea market neighborhood in the old town of
Athens, Greece, and is one of the principal
shopping districts in Athens. The area is home to
clothing boutiques, souvenir shops, and specialty
stores, and is a major tourist attraction in Athens
and Attica for bargain shopping. The area is
named after Monastiraki Square, which in turn is
named for the Pantánassa church monastery that
is located within the square.
The district of Thisio can be found south-
west of Monastiraki. It is a place famous for its
great number of cafés and bars, with a beautiful
view on the Acropolis. In addition this area took
its name from the false initial assumption that
the temple that even today is in great condition
was once devoted to ‘Theseus’.
Most of the Athenians love this area and often
go for their night walk and amusements.

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The area of Plaka is one of the most
attractive districts of Athens. Under the slopes of the
Acropolis Plaka attracts all the visitors of Athens with
its neoclassical mansions and houses with roofs from
red tiles, its small winding roads with their steps,
balconies with bougainvilleas ,geraniums and
jasmines. Plaka is called many times in the Greek
literature as the neighbourhood of the Gods and that
because over Plaka dominates the sacred rock of the
Acropolis "the sacred rock of the gods" who made
the modern Athenians with the same humour like
their Ancient ancestors, to personalise the Olympian
gods having fun like them in Plaka with lots of
Retsina wine and Dance.
Akropolis
The Acropolis of Athens or Citadel of Athens is the best known acropolis in the world.Although there are
many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as
The Acropolis without qualification. Acropolis = akros, akron, edge, extremity + polis, city.
The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock that rises 150 m (490 ft) above sea level in the city of Athens, with a surface
area of about 3 hectares. It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the first
Athenian king.The entrance to the Acropolis was a monumental gateway called the Propylaea. To the south of the
entrance is the tiny Temple of Athena Nike. A bronze statue of Athena, sculpted by Phidias, originally stood at its
centre. At the centre of the Acropolis is the Parthenon or Temple of Athena Parthenos (Athena the Virgin).
East of the entrance and north of the Parthenon is the temple known as the Erechtheum.
South of the platform that forms the top of the Acropolis there are also the remains of an outdoor theatre called
Theatre of Dionysus.A few hundred metres away, there is the now partially reconstructed Theatre of Herodes
Atticus.
All the valuable ancient artifacts are situated in the New Acropolis Museum, which resides 300 meters on the
southeast of the Rock of the Acropolis, on Dionysiou Areopagitou Street.

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Odeon of Herodes Atticus
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is an
impressive attraction in Athens found looming on
the hill below the south western side of the
Acropolis. Also called the “Herodeon”, the Athens
Odeon of Herode Atticus dates back to 161 AD,
when it was built by Herodes Atticus to honor his
wife Regilla, who had passed away a year earlier.
The structure was used as a theater in ancient
Athens for various plays and music concerts, and it
could seat up to 5,000 people.
Hadrian’s Arc & Temple of Olympian Zeus
The Arch of Hadrian was erected in honor of
the Roman emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century A.
The arch was built over the line of an ancient road
that led from the area of the Acropolis and the
Athenian Agora to the Olympieion and southeast
Athens. (It was never an actual gate in a wall). An
inscription on the western side of the arch states:
This is Athens, the ancient city of Theseus." An
inscription on the eastern side of the arch states:
"This is the city of Hadrian and not of Theseus".
The Temple of Olympian was an enormous
structure, the largest temple in Greece, exceeding
even the Parthenon in size. Work began on this vast
edifice in 515 BCE during the reign of the tyrant
Peisistratos, who initiated the building work that
was completed in 132 CE by the Emperor Hadrian.
The 104 columns, each 17 meters high, of the
temple were made of Pentelic marble. Only 15 of
the Corinthian columns remain standing to give a
sense of the enormous size of the temple which
would have been approximately 96 x 40 meters in
size.

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Panathenaic stadium:
The Panathenaic stadium’s history begins in 330
B.C. when Lycurgus supervised its construction, which at
the time consisted of wooden seats and was used to
house the Panathenaia festival every four years.
Athenian aristocrat and Roman Senator Herod Atticus
who, by coincidence, was born in Marathon, Greece,
built a new marble stadium in its place in 139-140. with
a seating capacity of 50,000 and a track of 205 metres
and width of 33.35 The modern Construction was
completed in its present format in 1906 and consists of
47 rows of seats and 60, 000 seating capacity.
Syntagma Square, Greek Parliament & Monument of the Unknown Soldier
The name Syntagma means Constitution.
When Greece was liberated from the Turks the great
powers decided that they needed a king and chose
Otto of Bavaria. Since he was too young to actually
rule he came with a military force and three regents
who ruled as dictators, imposing heavy taxes, and
stealing from the country. When the king finally came
of age the Greeks now fed up with the tyranny of the
Bavarians, with the support of British diplomats, two
Greek soldiers, Dimitrios Kallerges and Ioannes
Makriyannis led their troops to the palace and
demanded the king get rid of the foreigners and
within thirty days produce a constitution.
The building, which houses Parliament, was
initially constructed as the Palace of Otto, the first king
of Greece. The area where the Palace was to be
constructed was carefully chosen and the works began
in 1836 under the guidance of Friedrich Gaertner, Six
years later, the building was completed. Otto's family
lived there for twenty years and the building was then
inhabited by the royal family of Gluecksburg.
Nowadays, the old palace serves as the House Of
Parliaments.

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The Monument of the Unknown Soldier was
designed by the architect Emmanuel Lazaridis in
1930 and unveiled on the 25 of March 1932. The
main element of the monument is a large bas - relief
representing a dying Greek heavily armed soldier.
It is guarded 24 hours a day by two Evzoni (or
Tsoliades), members of the Presidential Guard , an
elite, specially chosen unit of the Greek Army.
Zappeion Megaron & National Garden
The Zappeion Megaron of Athens, is designed
by the famous Danish architect Theophil Freiherr von
Hansen in 1878, the Zappeion Megaron is named
after Evangelos Zappas, a businessman from Epirus
who played a major role in starting the Zappian
Olympic Games, which laid the path for the modern
Olympic Games The Zappeion building is a tribute to
this great man who brought the Olympic Games back
into the modern world.
The National Garden has small ponds,
narrow paths and tall trees which offer plenty of
oxygen and whose shade offers a welcoming place
for people to sit and relax. While walking down the
many narrow paths inside the garden you have the
feeling that you are in the countryside and not just a
few feet away from the center of Athens. This green
oasis does not only have a historically notable name,
but also a complex and interesting history.

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Athens University historical building
The main building of the Academy is a neoclassical
building between Panepistimiou Street and
Akadimias Street in the centre of Athens. The
building was designed as part of an architectural
"trilogy" in 1859 by the Danish architect Theophil
Hansen, along with the University and the National
LibraryThe sculptures were undertaken by the
Greek Leonidas Drosis, while the murals and
paintings by the Austrian Christian Griepenkerl.
On 20 March 1887, the building was
delivered by Ziller to the Greek Prime Minister,
Charilaos Trikoupis. The building was used for
housing the Numismatic Museum in 1890, and in
1914 the Byzantine Museum and the State
Archives. Finally, in 1926, the building was handed
over to the newly-established Academy of Athens.

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On the 2nd day of the study tour organized under
EUROXPRO ’12, an excursion at the beautiful area of
Peloponnese will be organized; allowing the delegates to leave
behind the busy big city life and what they learned at the
conference, chill and hang out with the AIESEC they met there.
At the same they will have the chance to visit well-known
breathtaking sights such as the Corinth Canal, Mycenae, Nafplion
& Epidavros. Our busses will leave the hostel at 8 o’clock (you
better get to bed early) in the morning in order to ensure that
we will have plenty of time to spend visiting our sublime spots.
But as we use to say first of all let’s go through the agenda
and more info on the sights are coming up next. Again, don’t
forget to wear comfortable shoes ‘cause a bit of walking is
involved here too.
8:00 – 9:00 Travel To Corinth Canal
9:00 – 9:30 Visit Corinth Canal & Breakfast
9:30 – 10:15 Travel to Mycenae
10:15 - 12:15 Visit Mycenae archeological site & Mycenae Museum
12:15 – 12:45 Travel to Nafplio
12:45 – 15:00 Visit Nafplio, the Castle of Nafplio (Palamidi) & Lunch
15:00 – 15:45 Travel to Epidaurus
15:45 – 16:45 Visit Epidaurus
17:30 – 20:00 Return to Athens

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Corinth Canal
The Corinth Canal is a canal that connects the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf in the Aegean Sea. It cuts
through the narrow Isthmus of Corinth and separates the Peloponnesian peninsula from the Greek mainland, The
builders dug the canal through the Isthmus at sea level. The Canal is 6.4 kilometres in length and 21.3 metres.
The canal was mooted in classical times and an abortive effort was made to build it in the 1st century AD. It
was completed in 1893 and it is now used mainly for tourist traffic.
Mycenae
The archaeological sites of Mycenae and Tiryns are the
imposing ruins of the two greatest cities of the Mycenaean
civilization, which dominated the eastern Mediterranean world
from the 15th to the 12th century B.C. and played a vital role in
the development of classical Greek culture. These two cities are
indissolubly linked to the Homeric epics, the Iliad and the
Odyssey , which have influenced European art and literature
for more than three millennia.

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Nafplio
In this modern town of the 10.000
population the whole beauty is seemed simple
painting. Nafplio there was the first capital town
of the younger Greece and of today of Nome
Argolida. It is 147 Km. away from Athens.
With the exit from Argos is beginning to form
towards your eyes the unique in whole the world
icon of the town with the castle - symbol to glass
on the water of the Gulf.
The most ancient town of the greek place, which
according to the mythology, was founded by him,
who first thought the idea of the organization of
the humans to towns, Thiseas, building the
prehistoric town, Nafplia
Epidaurus
Epidavros is the best preserved theatre ιn
the whole of Greece. It was the work of the
architect Polyklitos Junior (4th century B.C.), built
of limestone, it can seat 12,000 spectators.
Every summer it comes alive. Attending a
performance of ancient drama in this theater is
almost a mystical experience. Never to be forgotten.
At Epidaurus the actors don’t need to shout or
speak loudly because the acoustics are so good that
the merest whisper can be heard in the last row.

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