Oct 052009
National Garden, Athens
The National Garden (formerly the Royal Garden) is a peaceful, green refuge of 15.5 hectares in the center of the Hellenic capital, Athens. It is settled directly behind the Hellenic Parliament building (The Old Palace) and continues to the southward to the Atlantic where the Zappeion is located, across from the Panathenaiko or Kalimarmaro Olympic Stadium of the 1896 Olympic Games. The Garden also encloses some ancient ruins, tambours and Corinthian capitals of columns, mosaics, and another features. On the south-east there are the busts of Capodistrias,the first governor of Greece and of the great Philhellene, Eynard, and on the southward side of the celebrated Hellenic poets Dionysios Solomos , communicator of the Hellenic National Hymn, and Aristotelis Valaoritis. Athens travel attractions.
GPS coordinates: 37° 58′ 27″ N, 23° 44′ 18″ E
