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| Athens is the largest and capital city of Greece, located in the Attica periphery but it is also the capital of the Attica Periphery and the Athens Prefecture. One of the oldest cities in the world. The Athens metropolitan area is the centre of economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in Greece. Athens spans 412 km². Ancient Athens was a powerful city-state. A center for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, Athens was also the birthplace of Socrates, Pericles, Sophocles and more. A number of ancient monuments and artworks; the most famous of all the Parthenon on the Acropolis, standing as an epic landmark of western civilization. Athens sprawls across the central plain of Attica, often referred to as the Attica Basin. Athens is located at a transition point between the Mediterranean and the Alpine climatic zones. The city enjoys a typical Mediterranean climate, with the greatest amounts of precipitation mainly occurring from mid-October to mid-April; any precipitation is sparse during summer, and falls generally in the form of showers and/or thunderstorms. Due to its location in a strong rain shadow, however, the Athenian climate is very dry compared with most of mediterranean Europe. (Content provided by wikipedia, The free encyclopedia). |