Music at the foot of the Acropolis, Athens
Athens, always under the protection of the goddess Athena and the hero Theseus reached such political and cultural superiority in ancient Greece, when the writers wanted to refer to it simply spoke of the city. The glorious past is sensed at the sight of the Acropolis, around which the most traditional neighborhoods of Athens served the current setting for that constant throb of Mediterranean life that you know to extend the lounge of each house to the street itself.
These districts are the Plaka, Monastiraki and Anafiotika. For some time the Greek capital tries to rearrange its major urban planning projects. But not here, not in this maze of streets at the foot of the Acropolis, where flavor, color and Mediterranean music invaded all psychologies, all characters, so that no one knows who is a tourist abroad, Greek or citizen.
Plaka, on the northern slope of the hill, is a chaotic set of buildings. The legacy lives on in the bazaars Turkish: the neighborhood is normally chosen by travelers to the acquisition of memories. Marvel is looking up and bring out from anywhere in the presence of the Parthenon, and amid the incessant crowds and bustle life fall into a quiet reverie about the time of Pericles.
At night you have to go to neighboring Monastikiri to taste a dish in one of the many bars, restaurants, bars and taverns. Depending on our previous experience nomadic, perhaps recognize a certain similarity with the food of other countries such as Serbia, in part by a shared history at times. On the terraces of Monastikari bouzoukis hear the sound and guitars.
Greek Folklore is one of the major players in these neighborhoods. If luck is with us, perhaps in any premises an anonymous voice surprised us with the interpretation of tunes that have made great divas of the Greek song. Haris Alexiou and Eleftheria Arvanitaki, to name just two among the performers set admirable, the real stars of music in Greece, we still remember what a true artist.
His performances in theaters and stages across the country, full of epic and a feeling that perhaps in our idiotic pop-scale and we are unable to calibrate, are events that call for the sincere fervor of the crowds.
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