The Greek National Tourism Organisation comes to FITUR this year with the brand new Athens Acropolis Museum. This masterwork by the Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi will impress any visitor with its amazing geometry and vast glass walls that allow the building to be flooded with sunlight and enable visitors to admire the exhibits from all possible angles while moving freely across the nine halls.
Visitors to the fair will have a chance to obtain a wealth of information about the new ultra-modern-design museum, which offers the best possible conditions for the display of more than four thousand pieces of classical Hellenic art, most of them over 2,500 years old. A walk through the museum’s immense galleries immerses the visitor into ancient Athens in an experience of incalculable historical value.
As visitors to the stand will be able to see for themselves, the museum is a three-storey building where the collections have been divided according to the historical age to which they belong into two large groups: Archaic and Classical. The monuments that visitors to the museum have been able to see since its opening last June are fundamentally the elements of the classical Athens Acropolis: the Propylaea, the temple of Athena Nike and the Erecteion, as well as other treasures of the immensely rich Greek heritage.
In addition to its cultural and architectural richness, GREECE is also a modern country with a lot to offer by way of the friendliness of its people, its gastronomy, villages and areas of outstanding natural beauty. With 140 inhabited islands, a total of 16,000 km of coastline, a mild climate all the year round and a fantastic offer of boating activities, GREECE is set to prove its status at FITUR 2010 as a unique tourist destination at the international level.
Hall 6, Stand 6B04.
www.gnto.gr/www.theacropolismuseum.gr
