Rough Guides, 2004. — 201 p. — ISBN: 1-84353-314-6
In most minds, Athens is a city that happened twoand-a-half thousand years ago, and it’s true that
even now that past looms large – literally, in the shape of the mighty Acropolis that dominates almost every view, as well as in every visitor’s itinerary. Yet Athens is also home to over four million people, more than a third of the Greek population and is very much a city for the twenty-first century, one that has transformed itself for the 2004 Olympics.
