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Α significant part of the Collection of the National Bank, including works by Greek painters of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. is being exhibited this year at the National Gallery. The Collection began to be assembled immediately after the foundation of the Bank in 1841 and was gradually enriched, so that today it numbers some 2.000 works, which indirectly reflect the history of painting in modern Greece. In parallel with the exhibition of the works. also of particular interest is the account of the history of the National Bank's Collection in its recording of t...

The gods, the heroes, the Trojan war, the Argonauts are just some of the fascinating subjects that the reader will find in Greek Mythology. The vivid imagination of the ancient Greeks has left us a legacy that entertains and unstructs the reader of our time in the captivating world of antiquity.

This book captures the beauty and variety of Greek architectural decoration over three centuries. Glorious color photographs reveal exquisite murals and reliefs, painted and tiled interiors and exteriors, and a wealth of rich, vibrant color. The close-up photographs -many previously unpublished- of facades, doors, windows, floors, and furnishings, offer a tour of richly decorated mansions and public buildings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in both neoclassical and vernacular styles, as well as of rural homes, churches, and other structures. The informativ...

This map is an innovation in publishing: it contains cultural evidence about the Prefecture of Arcadia, and Gortynia in particular, and suggests routes for visiting the cultural monuments and the beauty spots. This map is accompanied by a concisely written and illustrated leaflet, which contains important information on the man-made and the natural environment.

Black powder means firearmas; it means war. A visit to the powder mill, on the lowest level of the Open-Air Water Power Museum in Dimitsana, involves a change of historical framework, theme and atmosphere.

The distinguished historian Michael Llewellyn-Smith, author of the classic Ionian Vision as well as a number of other important studies about modern Greece, writes about this book: The story of how the Greeks founded their independent state, through a mixture of bravery, persistence, skulduggery and guile, is an inspiring one, and there is no better time to tell it than the 200th anniversary of the outbreak of the Greek war of independence in 1821. Athina Cacouri’s new book, "1821: The Founding of Modern Greece", tells the whole complicated story, from the outbreak...