Ancient Free for dizziness.

Athens ancient treasures have a new home: The Acropolis Museum opens on Saturday - after years of infighting, setbacks and delays. With the ceremony, the Greeks want to increase pressure on Britain, the ancient Parthenon frieze returned.

 

Athens - "Now we can again be proud and dream that the stolen parts Fries come back to Athens," says a 49-year-old barman at the center of Athens, the impending opening of the new Acropolis museum big on 20 June.

Buses and trains in Athens with photos of the Parthenon, the main temple on the Acropolis, adorned. But parts of the frieze depicted are still in the British Museum in London. For the opening of the new project is preparing a big celebration Athens, which in all the world should be transferred. Heads of state and government from at least 20 countries in Europe and around the Mediterranean are invited.

Tickets for the first three days after the opening are already sold out. Only lasted a few hours of sales per
Internet, on Monday evening had begun. "The total of 2250 tickets were up this morning (Tuesday) were sold. The people bought tickets for the whole night through," said the architect in the Ministry of Culture, Athens, Evgeneia Kalogeratou. The entrance is in the first seven months, only one Euro. Even after 1 January 2010, the only entrance to five euros.

The new museum at the foot of the Acropolis has three floors and a total area of 25,000 square meters. The construction of large steel and glass built monumental building has more than eleven years.

"Glass and steel are ideal for this new art museum," says the museum's archeology professor and chief Dimitris Pandermanlis. From the museum is the view of the Acropolis, but also to the exhibits and the foundations of the building. Thus, only the ground floor suitable for vertigo-free, where the view through the plastic glass on the floor about eight feet deep at the foundations do not mind.

Rings around the Parthenon

"I felt I was floating in the air. I was dizzy," said Marianne Jordan. The German from Schleswig-Holstein lives permanently in Athens and the museum was already a few weeks before the opening view. The pillars of the museum are on excavated foundations and walls of residential buildings from antiquity to the 13th Century. The plans designed by Swiss star architect Bernard Tschumi.

Athens wants the planned celebrations and the UK under pressure, the ancient Parthenon frieze returned. "You belong here," had in the eighties, the Greek actress and Socialist Culture Minister Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday ") said repeatedly, and thus the dispute between Athens and London triggered. Beginning of the 19th Century, the then British ambassador in Istanbul, Lord Elgin, the best preserved parts of the Parthenon and other monuments of the Acropolis dismantled and brought to England.

56 of the 96 panels of the Parthenon frieze are up today in the British Museum in London. The new Acropolis Museum, the vague parts as holograms and duplicates made of white marble are presented to the lack of stress. "The frieze includes parts of the world and must be brought together. They do not belong to the English," says Greek Culture Minister Antonis Samaras again.

The British Museum had previously argued that in Athens there is no suitable storage space for the relics. This deficiency is compatible with the new museum is now eliminated, say the Greeks. The Parthenon ( "Virgin chamber") is one of the greatest surviving monuments of ancient Greece.