A unique photo tour at a very special urban landscape, in the heart of Athens (September 3 – December 31) Eleonas probably is a most exceptional urban landscape in the heart of Athens, one of the most historic cities of the world. The airport’s new exhibition, titled “Eleonas – Goddess Athena’s Olive Grove”, is the product of a significant collaboration between the Athens International Airport and the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens: through the unique photographs of Andreas Smaragdis, travellers and airport visitors will have the opportunity to “enter” the place where the Gods had their garden and their temple, but where a complete transformation took place, mainly during the 20th century! Nowadays, Eleonas claims its recognition as a “special” landscape, worthy to be preserved and protect the holy city to which the legend is interrelated. “Goddess Athena’s Olive Grove” stretched from the feet of Mount Parnitha, Penteli and Hymettus to Dafni, Piraeus and Faliro, following a parallel course with Kifisos, the most important river of Attica in ancient years. Today, stripped of olive trees, pastures and vineyards, this “marginally” urban and, at the same time, rural countryside is entrapped, without any planning, in the urban web and has been “burdened” with industrial and commercial installations and depots. Through the exhibition "Eleonas – Goddess Athena’s Olive Grove", the photographic camera discovers the landscape of the sacred Olive Grove, trying to capture, in an objective yet abstract way, priceless parts of the myth and human interventions through time that shaped its current “face” and appearance. Therefore, the images from different angles and aspects become simultaneously mirrors of the social and cultural groups that have marked this great site. The new exhibition at the airport premises, will be open to the public 24 hours a day, in the specially designated area "Art & Culture" at the arrivals level (Entrance 1). Admore (Evangelos Antonatos) tel.:+30 (210) 61 00 661 e-mail: antonatos@admore.gr web: www.admore.pro
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