The English did not bomb the "acropolis". Which just to be accurate the building is called the Parthenon. The rock which the Parthenon is built on is called the "Acropolis". The siege of the Acropolis took part in September 1687, as the Venetian Army ( the current Italians ) laid siege. The Ottoman garrison used the Parthenon as gunpowder store. The Italians fired artillery at it and blew it up.
THEN the English nobles aka travellers aka aka looters came and literally hacked all sculptures off from the Parthenon, selling them like their property to settle up their debts! And England happily bought them!
As a greek i strongly disagree that exarcheia is the most dangerous place. In fact omonoia is actually THE hood in athens. Yes exarcheia is anarchist but there are many police officers. Also its a great place has great cafes and restaurants and at night there are many bars filled with students. Its very safe and honestly exarcheia at night is 5x times safer than monastiraki at night
so you dont care about the city you care about the cafes learn some respect its like saying the khmer rouge was good because it had impressive architecture
Born and raised there. Exarchia is not a dangerous place... its just an alternative place. Just a bunch of anarchists clash with the police from times to times mostly in weekends. There are areas in Athens and around Omonia much more dangerous and that's because of immigrants and most likely harmless junkies.
I was gonna say the same. The heavy policing of the area started around 3 years ago I think. Before that if there were police men they were not as obvious.
When you look it up in English, they mention she's the goddess of war. But let's be realistic. So those gods were not wise. She decided to treasure Medusa's life while she was still one of her best devotees.
@@AdventuresFactory they were not wise? hahaha,bro you do not even know why she as you says treasured Medusa and what Medusa really was. look for the serpent guardiands in Hindu philosophy-religion refered as Nagas
Athena was also the goddess of war. But not the bloodthirsty war. The strategic war. Greek gods were very multifaceted. Hermes for example was not just the messenger god, but also the god of math, letters, thievery....
technically the acropolis has been built on for 3500 years, since mycenean athens, but the acropolis that stands today is around 2550 years old, since classical era athens, and the golden age of pericles, which was when all the buildings that stand on the acropolis Today were built.
29:40 ''The army is everywhere" ? You surely mean the police who indeed are plentiful in the Exarchia area, but there is no army roaming the streets anywhere in Greek cities or towns.
the guy who was with you is saying that Acropolis is 3500 years old that is wrong also that the ENGLISH bombed Acropolis that is wrong too , i hope you didnt pay him to be a tour guide
@@gpatoy5976 it was a mosque for the Ottomans, but they also used it to store their gunpowder during their war with Venice in 1687, when a Venetian cannonball hit the gunpowder and blew up the whole structure. Also saying that the Acropolis is 3500 years old isn't technically false, since the hill did indeed house the halls of the local rulers in the Mycenaean age(i.e. roughly 3500 years ago) and was probably inhabited from even earlier.
Its been 5 months since the last video , and this is worth the wait 👍🙌 Niche stole the show! Very informative and learned a lot from his commentary Can’t wait for the rest of the series
Actually the polytechnic protest happened in 1973 and the dictatorship fell 1 year after it's crack down after the cyprous greco-turkish war. Also the dead in the 3 day duration of the protest was 24 all in the streets around the polytechnic block. But that's small letters
I did correct that in the video in text. I realized there were a couple of mistakes, so I did a little research. I appreciate your correction, though. Really!
Yeah, but toilets are expected. It was a need. Toys were a luxury. A lot of cultures treated kids as adults, but toys are indicative that people considered kids to be different. It's very compassionate.
@@AdventuresFactory Perhaps you should clarify "children's toys" lol. my mind went to adult toys, while reading this LOL 🤣🤣which is raising the question, did they have adult toys?? LOL 🤔🤔🧐🧐
Greek Gyros is actually a listed in NYC company.... the difference with Sawarmi is in trademark legal listing.... Even before the Ottomans conquered Instanbul-Constantinopole, eastern meditereneans had a shared cuisine underthe Roman empire....
Stayed in that same location last week, walked all around there and never felt unsafe. Coming from the US I've noticed a lot of places people say are unsafe in other countries usually got nothing on unsafe areas in the US.
you are a tourist i find it offensive you walked around for a few days and now think you are qualified to talk about it where an albanian gang can come and threaten your life even in the smaller town and the place on the video is actually really dangerous
As an guy who lives in Thessaloniki and traveled to athens years ago with my old class for three days, one of my classmates mom was robbed right when we arrived.
Bruxelles is not Belgium Athens is not Greece if you know what i mean. Try other citys like kalamata nafplio kavala alexandroupoli Thessaloniki volos and you will return thousand times 💪
I need to tell you something about elevators. Old buildings like the ones you were inside, have very narrow but modern elevators. In other areas, suburbs for example, the buildings have normal size elevators.
If you want more milk on your freddo coffee ask for freddo latte... Or freddo espresso with extra shot of milk of your choice. Cappuccino as the original has frothed milk that sits on top unless you whisk it..
Είσαι λάθος αλλά και αυτός το θέτει με ένα τρόπο που παραπλανεί ας πούμε, η Αθηνά είναι η θέα της γνώσης, το τεχνών των γραμμάτων της στρατηγικής και το πολέμου εξού και ο τρόπος με των οποίων οι αρχαίοι την απεικονίζουν φορώντας πανοπλία, και περικεφαλαία και κρατώντας δόρυ και όπλο(ασπίδα).
@@fotisk1994 επιτέλους κάποιος τα είπε - περίπου - σωστά, είναι μεγάλη κουβέντα βέβαια όλα αυτά και έχει πολύ "ζουμί" το θέμα, βαθιά και ανεπανάληπτη και όμορφη η σκέψη και οι τρόποι των αρχαίων προγόνων μας (αγράμματοι οι σύγχρονοι Έλληνες, έχουν μεγάλη άγνοια ή σοβαρά κενά παιδείας για την ιστορία τους και σε τι θησαυρό πατάνε επάνω, πέρα από κάποιες επιδερμικές γνώσεις, για αυτό πάμε κατά διαόλου. Να δώ πότε θα ξυπνήσουμε, και άν... Όχι ότι είναι και "έγκλημα" να μην ξέρει κανείς (αν και στην πραγματικότητα, είναι..), ούτε είναι υποχρεωμένος ο καθένας, να έχει εμβαθύνει στην αρχαιοελληνική μυθολογία και σκέψη - άλλωστε είναι κάτι εξαιρετικά σπάνιο η "αρχαιογνωσία" αυτού του τύπου, και δύσκολο θέμα - ακόμη και για τους αρχαίους μας προγόνους ήταν, και φυσικά μυστηριώδες και αινιγματικό / "σκοτεινό" - αλλά το κακό είναι ότι το παίζουν και νομίζουν και "ότι ξέρουν" και όλας και θέλουν να διορθώνουν και τους άλλους. Ο ορισμός της ημιμάθειας ) υγ. είναι και θεά της "σοφίας", αλλά σαφώς όχι όπως το εννοούν ή λένε διάφοροι εδώ.
Shawarma has a different pie (Lebanese pita) and different filling (cabbage and carrot, lettuce) to gyro , the other things are the same (chicken, tomato, onion) , minus the sauce .
Those who say Athens is abd or scary or whatever, try going to Menidi where Roman or Nomadic people live in north west of Athens, you're gonna change your opinion, places like Exarcheia and Omonia ane Vikroria arent that bad, they're only unclean areas
I live in ano liosia which is next to menidi and the only dangerous parts are the Roma neighborhoods the Greek side is calm and safe Also it's not really dangerous in a way that u can get killed or something, the only thing that can happen to u is getting robbed and beat up and if u enter with some Roma friends you're safe
I personally didn't look up that piece of info, but yes, I read about the Persians and the Ottomans. Greekdotcom says, "In 1687, during the Ottoman-Venetian War, the Venetian Francesco Morosini bombed the sacred rock and a bombshell blew up the Parthenon, which served as the Turks' gunpowder magazine." You're right. So basically, it's the Italians.
Its crazy how tourists and think this is the most dangerous area in Athens 😂😂😂 if you really want to go to the most dangerous areas in Athens you should go to Ζεφύρι,Άνω Λιόσια some parts of Μενίδι and many more western areas even the police has trouble getting in these areas
@@AdventuresFactory if you actually go to those areas you will be the first youtuber that done this no one has the balls to do it its like cartel areas they have guns there
as a greek immigration and societal decline are always a factor since the late 90s during the junta or the 4th of august regime and prime minister venizelos greece was more succsesfull happy and religous but we abandoned these values for western liberalism and secularity . now you see teenagers doing dances on their tiktok with little clothing and crying about having asd depression and adhd at the same time its not the greece we deserve not the one we should accept
I've been coming to Athens since 1973. . I've had a place in Central Athens for decades. There are places that are rundown & shabby - it doesn't make them dangerous (apart from crossing the road. Lol). But I have NEVER felt unsafe anywhere. There are drugs & homeless in every capital city so, yes, there are some here. But everywhere in Athens is safe !?
29:45 - "the army is everywhere" - I wasn't there and didn't see what you see, but it's far more likely that you saw riot police instead of the army. Riot police are a common sight in Exarchia. The army is a rare sight in the country, especially in the capital, unless you're walking through the country and you bump into them doing exercises.
I remember Omonia in 2010. It was a very very bad area. It is so much better nowadays. Step by step the area is getting quite nice. But it is still a long way. However, I think the very bad days of Athens are over.
@@linasummervibes Compared to how it used to be, it is way better. It doesnt come close to how bad things were 10 years ago. And like I said in my comment, there is still a long way to go.
I am sorry but your tour guide saying that Exarchia is a dangerous area and that's why police is always stationed there, he is talking nonsense. Exarchia is actually a nice neighborhood with low levels of crime and the governments has been stationing the police there for many years, even before the plans for the metro became known, just because is an area of anarchist and they want to control them. Most of the locals (who obviously not all of them are anarchists) object to the building of the metro station because they don't want their neighborhood to lose its character and vibe, becoming a busy place and they have every right to do so, as the metro could be made on another location closeby without ruining the area and its "personality".. But again, the only reason the government insists on building it in the center of Exarchia is to ruin its vibe, symbolism and to seize control on it..
He actually said it's the "land of freedom". I'm the one who said it's the most dangerous and named it so because everyone on UA-cam is calling it that name. That's why I explained that it's not what people say it is, even though these things do happen.
@@AdventuresFactory apologies, I misheard you saying that your tour guide called it dangerous - and surprisingly cause he looks a cool guys who wouldn't have this kind of opinions...
@alexp.7182 He actually loves that area. He believes it's the new hot spot. He said soon there won't be car traffic in the area either, and it will be a hip spot.
Exarcheia is actually super safe for citizens. The "criminals" there are anarchists and anyway nowadays there has been a lot of investing going on so the area is just too expensive for Greeks
come live here its depressing people dont have money religion is non existent among young people housing is bad jobs are hard to get women hate traditionalism and marriage men think they are too gangsta to marry in some places internet is terrible if you live in ioannina palestine protesters will attack you and threaten you the KKE and golden dawn parties are having street fights all day
to be more precice : Dimos describes a township a group of people come together to make up a society , kratia comes from Kratao - krato , wich means to hold , in short Dimokratia - Democracy means : Society holds - to have power
POV your friend Him : I want no alcohol beer Waiter : we have Him : no I know it has 0,5 inside Waiter : I am not joking it’s 0.0 Him : u sure Waiter: what am I lying?
Athens is ugly, dirty and dangerous. I am an athenian, born from athenian parents from athenian ancestry. I have moved out of Athens 20+ years ago, returning only for the Public Sector Services that are, all, located in the center of Athens. This city has not elected an athenian as a mayor the last 58 years!!!!
I am an athenian too, also born from athenian parents from athenian ancestry. There are few of us that can actually say they are 100% Athenian (at least 3-4 generations back that is). I agree with the OP. Athens has become a shithole. Not only from illegals but also from people that came here from villages believing they will find heaven and act like they are here since Acropolis was made, also making fun of people still living in the country. True Rednecks.
No law. And laws about everything. Depends on who you are. We have a different legal order for every single person on the planet. Very elaborate, very specialized, very perfect!
I've worked at Exarchia Square 6 years ago and I can confirm that indeed it was a bit dangerous at night because there was no police that could enter the square until 2020 because they (anarchists) chased them away. Junkies, drug dealers, bloody fights and gun shots was a usual thing that time and the only thing that kept me safe was that I talked with most of them cause I worked there and they got to know me. Of course there are more dangerous places in the center of Athens like Metaxourgio or Omonia but the most dangerous are a bit far from the center and no youtuber have visited any of them yet.
I did visit one market and I don't know what to do with the footage. It was depressing. I love Greece, but that one market was just something else. Any recommendation on what to make it?
garlic sauce differs from djagiki sauce and obviously from tahini. it is the flavor and the ingredidients used i'ld never put tahini along with meat maybe use garlic sauce instead of djagiki but this would be an experiment. what you eat is souvlaki and you can use almost any kind of sauce but not tahini. also the OG wrapped souvlaki has no fried potatoes.
As a resident there for more than a year - it is far worst than "bad". Awful urbanisation, no green areas, public transport - nightmare. The "native" Omonia and Metaxourgeio, the armies of tourists in the center, the constant violent protests... I don't know a single greek, who lived somewhere else and to have a good word for Athens.
True about the public transport, but Metaxourgio is OK and Athens has similar to other big cities. You still have great food, best service, lots of Cultural options, etc. Anyone who lived in big cities abroad just loves Athens.
Well, after traveling around Greece, I thought Athens is the least pretty place. Which in terms of natural beauty is kind of true, but the lifestyle, the way people do things, the political opinions, the bars, and everything just feel like the 70s. Even the hairstyles.
@user-qb1kb9bz9q the mustache fashion. Lol.. In Canada, you barely see the mustache alone. I was surprised to see many people rocking the Ron Jeremy look. 😅
Just for not false information the small temple that they say was an original and then copy pasted for acropolis isn't that it is actually Hephaestus temple😅
bro you haven't seen anything serious going on in Exarchia Syntagma and all around,if you want to experience this..ask about dates like 6th December to come back.
@@AdventuresFactory I walk out of my door and there is the entrance into the mountains. And for cheap food go to suburbains u will never see the resl Greece in these areas
You also stayed in Exarchia which is the anarchists' hub. Police always have a presence there, it is not indicative of the rest of Athens. Next time don't stay in Exarchia.
No.. Athens, in general, didn't have a lot of police presence. It's very calm. I'm still making other videos on Greece. That was my first impressions video.
@@AdventuresFactory The one you ate is from Ukraine. Most restaurants, specially in touristic places, due to economic crisis buy frozen plates from other cheaper countries. It's more convenient than preparing a fresh one pay an employee and pay the electricity...Of course in a country in debts the quality of everything falls. Don't come to Greece!!!
To describe athens as dangerous is ridiculous. You obviously have no idea what dangerous means. People here take pride in being described as alternative crooks. Next time let's meet in the Honduras
The only dangerous thing in Exarchia was always police and its intentions. Until 2018 Exarchia was an alterntative area with a lot of movements co existing like leftists and anarchists and every weekend also youngsters of hipster roots. But always police, either covered or uncovered, staged provocations or excessive control after demos. Also, we had several murders from police at that area since ever(Kaltezas,Koumis,Kanellopoulou,Grigoropoulos). So ,except of a lively neighborhood,was a fully political one and thus fully policed. Exarchia were aimed from deep state of Greece and were in the epicentre of everything social and resisting in Athens. Now its busier and uglier and POLICED with a metro station ruining its cell, the Exarchia square where solidarity and politics use to exist, now is gentrification and police!
7:58 what does she mean by that exactly? teach her some history or cut that part...or better have a trip in an english museum and see where the rest 'meh' are
@AdventuresFactory maybe they were scared to show their true identity due to the camera its pretty sad in exarchia and centre of athens u should check out another dangerous location that is not so known to outsiders, Dentropotamos Thessaloniki u going to be shocked
lol i hve been almost everywhere in europe and istanbul too, athens doesnt crack even the top 50 of unsafe big cities in europe. click bait title, not watching this shit downvoted
Dude your part on exarchia is so sensationalistic , exarchia these days is vanilla... I grew up there from the 80s till early 20... back then it was hardcore and these "shells" is just flash bangs for crowd control, is not sketchy nowdays is more gentrified by stupid riot porn youtubers and overall idiots, half of it is bought by israelis and the other half by Chinese to be turned to airbnb and serviced apartments
Athens is the ugliest capital in Europe and one of the dirtiest. Only the area around the Acropolis is nice. During the Greek financial crisis property was sold for peanuts in Athens and now the people who bought want to make millions out of it by advertising the city like a mixture of Paris and Berlin 😂. It's a place that floods in the first autumn rain and burns in summertime (this year the fires even got deep into the suburbs)
Maybe your are not welcome to Greece.. go away .. I have been there dozen times .. !!! No & never I had any problems.. Pls empty the place ... For some one else with better breans
I'm from the Netherlands myself after 8 years here it isn't that bad in Athens. Just integrate in Greece and adapt yourself with the local customs and you will be fine. And the bomb well that's the cops shooting tear gas but you will be fine 😂😂
you come from the netherlands where there are sex shops on the street and leftism is your main value of course you gonna see no problem with greece a country losing its identity
The English did not bomb the "acropolis". Which just to be accurate the building is called the Parthenon. The rock which the Parthenon is built on is called the "Acropolis". The siege of the Acropolis took part in September 1687, as the Venetian Army ( the current Italians ) laid siege. The Ottoman garrison used the Parthenon as gunpowder store. The Italians fired artillery at it and blew it up.
THEN the English nobles aka travellers aka aka looters came and literally hacked all sculptures off from the Parthenon, selling them like their property to settle up their debts!
And England happily bought them!
Is not Italians but Jewish ...
Francesco Morosini
As a greek i strongly disagree that exarcheia is the most dangerous place. In fact omonoia is actually THE hood in athens. Yes exarcheia is anarchist but there are many police officers. Also its a great place has great cafes and restaurants and at night there are many bars filled with students. Its very safe and honestly exarcheia at night is 5x times safer than monastiraki at night
Yes.. I liked it.
so you dont care about the city you care about the cafes
learn some respect its like saying the khmer rouge was good because it had impressive architecture
@@Otto_von_bismarck5 bruh whats your problem.
@@christina22klol12 not caring about the community
@@Otto_von_bismarck5 you do seem interested enough to care to comment on it
Born and raised there. Exarchia is not a dangerous place... its just an alternative place. Just a bunch of anarchists clash with the police from times to times mostly in weekends. There are areas in Athens and around Omonia much more dangerous and that's because of immigrants and most likely harmless junkies.
That makes sense.
I was gonna say the same. The heavy policing of the area started around 3 years ago I think. Before that if there were police men they were not as obvious.
Even those immigrants aren't scary, try going Menidi
I lived there my first 3 years in Athens, about 3 blocks from Exarcheia Square ( which is ruined now). I love that neighbourhood.
If you think the elevators in Athens are weird and/or small, you haven’t been around much have you? Try Paris!
Athena was the goddess of wisdom and strategy,not war.
Ares was the god of war.
When you look it up in English, they mention she's the goddess of war. But let's be realistic. So those gods were not wise. She decided to treasure Medusa's life while she was still one of her best devotees.
@@AdventuresFactory they were not wise?
hahaha,bro you do not even know why she as you says treasured Medusa and what Medusa really was.
look for the serpent guardiands in Hindu philosophy-religion refered as Nagas
@user-rs1dy2cy3z yeah, but I played Hercules 😄😄. I used to have a love-hate relationship with her. I cared about her the most.
@AdventuresFactory better learn to decipher the Hellenic mythology,and the philosophy rather than laughing it out.
Athena was also the goddess of war. But not the bloodthirsty war. The strategic war. Greek gods were very multifaceted. Hermes for example was not just the messenger god, but also the god of math, letters, thievery....
technically the acropolis has been built on for 3500 years, since mycenean athens, but the acropolis that stands today is around 2550 years old, since classical era athens, and the golden age of pericles, which was when all the buildings that stand on the acropolis Today were built.
as a tourist, athens is alright, but as a resident is impossible to keep up with the bills, prices, traffic, etc
Honestly, that's everywhere now.
Said every person living in every city around the world
29:40 ''The army is everywhere" ? You surely mean the police who indeed are plentiful in the Exarchia area, but there is no army roaming the streets anywhere in Greek cities or towns.
Yes only xarchia
@@AdventuresFactory Right. And it is the Police not the army.
the guy who was with you is saying that Acropolis is 3500 years old that is wrong also that the ENGLISH bombed Acropolis that is wrong too , i hope you didnt pay him to be a tour guide
No, he's just my friend. It was my first day there, and I pulled out the camera. He was not expecting any of this. Lol, you're right.
@@AdventuresFactory You need to fact check things before posting it.
@@AdventuresFactory it was the Venatians who bombared the parthenon . Parthenon was the ammunition storage for the ottomans .
@@gpatoy5976 it was a mosque for the Ottomans, but they also used it to store their gunpowder during their war with Venice in 1687, when a Venetian cannonball hit the gunpowder and blew up the whole structure. Also saying that the Acropolis is 3500 years old isn't technically false, since the hill did indeed house the halls of the local rulers in the Mycenaean age(i.e. roughly 3500 years ago) and was probably inhabited from even earlier.
Its been 5 months since the last video , and this is worth the wait 👍🙌
Niche stole the show! Very informative and learned a lot from his commentary
Can’t wait for the rest of the series
Thank you Ralphy. Much love ❤️
Actually the polytechnic protest happened in 1973 and the dictatorship fell 1 year after it's crack down after the cyprous greco-turkish war.
Also the dead in the 3 day duration of the protest was 24 all in the streets around the polytechnic block.
But that's small letters
I did correct that in the video in text. I realized there were a couple of mistakes, so I did a little research. I appreciate your correction, though. Really!
The dictatorship of the fascist military junta collapsed not after a year but 8 months later. In July 1974 in fact.
saddest moment in greek history since 1453
@@Otto_von_bismarck5 not really... civil war was worse and the crimes of the leftists EVEN worse...
"They had toys at that time?" Man, we had toilets at that time -_-
Yeah, but toilets are expected. It was a need. Toys were a luxury. A lot of cultures treated kids as adults, but toys are indicative that people considered kids to be different. It's very compassionate.
@@AdventuresFactory Perhaps you should clarify "children's toys" lol. my mind went to adult toys, while reading this LOL 🤣🤣which is raising the question, did they have adult toys?? LOL 🤔🤔🧐🧐
Greek Gyros is actually a listed in NYC company.... the difference with Sawarmi is in trademark legal listing.... Even before the Ottomans conquered Instanbul-Constantinopole, eastern meditereneans had a shared cuisine underthe Roman empire....
😂😂😂
Being scared of Exarcheia and Omonoia is actually fucking crazy
Stayed in that same location last week, walked all around there and never felt unsafe. Coming from the US I've noticed a lot of places people say are unsafe in other countries usually got nothing on unsafe areas in the US.
It was safe. I've been to other areas, though, where I actually felt unsafe. I'll make a video about it, but I'm general, this area was very cool.
you are a tourist i find it offensive you walked around for a few days and now think you are qualified to talk about it where an albanian gang can come and threaten your life even in the smaller town and the place on the video is actually really dangerous
As an guy who lives in Thessaloniki and traveled to athens years ago with my old class for three days, one of my classmates mom was robbed right when we arrived.
Bruxelles is not Belgium Athens is not Greece if you know what i mean. Try other citys like kalamata nafplio kavala alexandroupoli Thessaloniki volos and you will return thousand times 💪
Well, I tried arachova and meteora. They were like a fairytale.
Athens in total is not that bad but there are some specific areas that are extremely dangerous. 😊😊😊
I'm sure there are dangerous pockets.
I need to tell you something about elevators. Old buildings like the ones you were inside, have very narrow but modern elevators. In other areas, suburbs for example, the buildings have normal size elevators.
That makes sense. The elevators in those areas are definitely worth visiting.
true my house has a normal one but without music sadly
If you want more milk on your freddo coffee ask for freddo latte... Or freddo espresso with extra shot of milk of your choice. Cappuccino as the original has frothed milk that sits on top unless you whisk it..
I liked your video …..so Thanks for sharing and see you soon …….Alex🇬🇷
Absolutely.. thank you for your positive comment. These comments make my day. I'll see you soon too.
Athena was and still is Goddess of Wisdom ....to your information.
Είσαι λάθος αλλά και αυτός το θέτει με ένα τρόπο που παραπλανεί ας πούμε, η Αθηνά είναι η θέα της γνώσης, το τεχνών των γραμμάτων της στρατηγικής και το πολέμου εξού και ο τρόπος με των οποίων οι αρχαίοι την απεικονίζουν φορώντας πανοπλία, και περικεφαλαία και κρατώντας δόρυ και όπλο(ασπίδα).
@@fotisk1994 επιτέλους κάποιος τα είπε - περίπου - σωστά, είναι μεγάλη κουβέντα βέβαια όλα αυτά και έχει πολύ "ζουμί" το θέμα, βαθιά και ανεπανάληπτη και όμορφη η σκέψη και οι τρόποι των αρχαίων προγόνων μας (αγράμματοι οι σύγχρονοι Έλληνες, έχουν μεγάλη άγνοια ή σοβαρά κενά παιδείας για την ιστορία τους και σε τι θησαυρό πατάνε επάνω, πέρα από κάποιες επιδερμικές γνώσεις, για αυτό πάμε κατά διαόλου. Να δώ πότε θα ξυπνήσουμε, και άν... Όχι ότι είναι και "έγκλημα" να μην ξέρει κανείς (αν και στην πραγματικότητα, είναι..), ούτε είναι υποχρεωμένος ο καθένας, να έχει εμβαθύνει στην αρχαιοελληνική μυθολογία και σκέψη - άλλωστε είναι κάτι εξαιρετικά σπάνιο η "αρχαιογνωσία" αυτού του τύπου, και δύσκολο θέμα - ακόμη και για τους αρχαίους μας προγόνους ήταν, και φυσικά μυστηριώδες και αινιγματικό / "σκοτεινό" - αλλά το κακό είναι ότι το παίζουν και νομίζουν και "ότι ξέρουν" και όλας και θέλουν να διορθώνουν και τους άλλους. Ο ορισμός της ημιμάθειας ) υγ. είναι και θεά της "σοφίας", αλλά σαφώς όχι όπως το εννοούν ή λένε διάφοροι εδώ.
Shawarma has a different pie (Lebanese pita) and different filling (cabbage and carrot, lettuce) to gyro , the other things are the same (chicken, tomato, onion) , minus the sauce .
Born in Athens, I love the city, but it needs some major changes.
I love Athens, but not in the summer.
Those who say Athens is abd or scary or whatever, try going to Menidi where Roman or Nomadic people live in north west of Athens, you're gonna change your opinion, places like Exarcheia and Omonia ane Vikroria arent that bad, they're only unclean areas
LOL you mean ROM not ''Roman''
@@theo9952 first of all its Roma but auto correction changed it to Roman
I live in ano liosia which is next to menidi and the only dangerous parts are the Roma neighborhoods the Greek side is calm and safe
Also it's not really dangerous in a way that u can get killed or something, the only thing that can happen to u is getting robbed and beat up and if u enter with some Roma friends you're safe
@@theo9952 rom or vrom? 🧐🧐
@@javadalizade6268 Ok. Παντως ειναι και Ρομά και Ρομ.
Was it the Venetians who bombed the Parthenon? The English just came to dismantle the marbles.
I personally didn't look up that piece of info, but yes, I read about the Persians and the Ottomans. Greekdotcom says, "In 1687, during the Ottoman-Venetian War, the Venetian Francesco Morosini bombed the sacred rock and a bombshell blew up the Parthenon, which served as the Turks' gunpowder magazine." You're right. So basically, it's the Italians.
The Metro in Athens is fantastic - clean & efficient.
w content bro, keep it up
Thanks a lot. I'm trying to make time for more videos. Your comment just made my day.
I’ve lived in Athens 15 years, and I still have trouble distinguishing the elevators. Lol
My friend, Athena was not the God of War but the God of Wisdom. Ares was the God of War.
With respect
Orfeas the Greek.
I looked it up, because I thought I was wrong, but she is. She's the goddess of both. You can find it in Britannica.
Its crazy how tourists and think this is the most dangerous area in Athens 😂😂😂 if you really want to go to the most dangerous areas in Athens you should go to Ζεφύρι,Άνω Λιόσια some parts of Μενίδι and many more western areas even the police has trouble getting in these areas
Maybe next time. Lol.. that's so far the most famous.
And that's because of Roma people who live there.
@@AdventuresFactory if you actually go to those areas you will be the first youtuber that done this no one has the balls to do it its like cartel areas they have guns there
@@enlathxaind178 not only Roma every druglord or biggest mafia head in Greece do business in these areas
@@bluemango3692 is it the area with the market and lots of Roma people?
You start with an error. Athena the Goddess of war….?!?! She is the Goddess of wisdom !
Goddess of both actually
as a greek immigration and societal decline are always a factor since the late 90s during the junta or the 4th of august regime and prime minister venizelos greece was more succsesfull happy and religous but we abandoned these values for western liberalism and secularity . now you see teenagers doing dances on their tiktok with little clothing and crying about having asd depression and adhd at the same time its not the greece we deserve not the one we should accept
I've been coming to Athens since 1973. . I've had a place in Central Athens for decades. There are places that are rundown & shabby - it doesn't make them dangerous (apart from crossing the road. Lol). But I have NEVER felt unsafe anywhere. There are drugs & homeless in every capital city so, yes, there are some here. But everywhere in Athens is safe !?
Athens has been great. I only felt uncomfortable in one place. I'll probably mention it on a video soon.
you came right at the end of our greatest period
29:45 - "the army is everywhere" - I wasn't there and didn't see what you see, but it's far more likely that you saw riot police instead of the army. Riot police are a common sight in Exarchia. The army is a rare sight in the country, especially in the capital, unless you're walking through the country and you bump into them doing exercises.
32:20 - "there's army right behind us" - yep that's riot police :)
That makes sense. But they're there 24/7. That's why I was wondering.
I remember Omonia in 2010. It was a very very bad area. It is so much better nowadays. Step by step the area is getting quite nice. But it is still a long way. However, I think the very bad days of Athens are over.
bad days of Athens are not over. A square and a fountain didn't elevate the area. There are still dangerous things happening.
That's good to hear.
@@linasummervibes Compared to how it used to be, it is way better. It doesnt come close to how bad things were 10 years ago. And like I said in my comment, there is still a long way to go.
Acropolis is 2500 years old, the streets are modern though.
I am sorry but your tour guide saying that Exarchia is a dangerous area and that's why police is always stationed there, he is talking nonsense. Exarchia is actually a nice neighborhood with low levels of crime and the governments has been stationing the police there for many years, even before the plans for the metro became known, just because is an area of anarchist and they want to control them. Most of the locals (who obviously not all of them are anarchists) object to the building of the metro station because they don't want their neighborhood to lose its character and vibe, becoming a busy place and they have every right to do so, as the metro could be made on another location closeby without ruining the area and its "personality".. But again, the only reason the government insists on building it in the center of Exarchia is to ruin its vibe, symbolism and to seize control on it..
He actually said it's the "land of freedom". I'm the one who said it's the most dangerous and named it so because everyone on UA-cam is calling it that name. That's why I explained that it's not what people say it is, even though these things do happen.
@@AdventuresFactory apologies, I misheard you saying that your tour guide called it dangerous - and surprisingly cause he looks a cool guys who wouldn't have this kind of opinions...
@alexp.7182 He actually loves that area. He believes it's the new hot spot. He said soon there won't be car traffic in the area either, and it will be a hip spot.
why is every 2 person i see there an albanian or black
@@Otto_von_bismarck5 get a life.
You wanna see if its bad? Get some panathinaikos tickets and go see the match you'll see everything you want to know
Lol.. I think that's almost everywhere there's soccer fans.
Athena is the godess of wisdom
I blame Wikipedia English. 😅.. next video, I'll make sure to do a rigorous fact check.
Exarcheia is actually super safe for citizens. The "criminals" there are anarchists and anyway nowadays there has been a lot of investing going on so the area is just too expensive for Greeks
?????GREECE IS THE BEAUTY AND THE LAST PARADISE ON PLANET🇬🇷🇬🇷👌❤❤......dont forget this.
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come live here its depressing
people dont have money
religion is non existent among young people
housing is bad
jobs are hard to get
women hate traditionalism and marriage
men think they are too gangsta to marry
in some places internet is terrible
if you live in ioannina palestine protesters will attack you and threaten you
the KKE and golden dawn parties are having street fights all day
to be more precice : Dimos describes a township a group of people come together to make up a society , kratia comes from Kratao - krato , wich means to hold , in short Dimokratia - Democracy means : Society holds - to have power
Thanks for the clarification
POV your friend
Him : I want no alcohol beer
Waiter : we have
Him : no I know it has 0,5 inside
Waiter : I am not joking it’s 0.0
Him : u sure
Waiter: what am I lying?
Yeah, lol. He drank so much that the doctor advised him to quit.
Goddess Athena was not the God of War. Ares was. Athena was the Goddess of Wisdom.
Athens is ugly, dirty and dangerous. I am an athenian, born from athenian parents from athenian ancestry. I have moved out of Athens 20+ years ago, returning only for the Public Sector Services that are, all, located in the center of Athens. This city has not elected an athenian as a mayor the last 58 years!!!!
That's interesting. I don't blame you, though. The country looks like a fairytale. Anywhere out of the city is just amazing.
leftists f ed up greece
@@AdventuresFactory nope albanian gangs will terrorise you even in areas like attiki
@@AdventuresFactory the rest of Greece is even poorer
I am an athenian too, also born from athenian parents from athenian ancestry. There are few of us that can actually say they are 100% Athenian (at least 3-4 generations back that is). I agree with the OP. Athens has become a shithole. Not only from illegals but also from people that came here from villages believing they will find heaven and act like they are here since Acropolis was made, also making fun of people still living in the country. True Rednecks.
i miss 1900s greece so much more peacefull and beautifull out architecture hasnt changed since then but at least for their time they were advanced
I was waiting so long for this episode. Finally. 🎉 I’m excited for the new ones.
I'm sorry I had some difficulties, but I'm back. 🥳
No law. And laws about everything. Depends on who you are. We have a different legal order for every single person on the planet. Very elaborate, very specialized, very perfect!
I've worked at Exarchia Square 6 years ago and I can confirm that indeed it was a bit dangerous at night because there was no police that could enter the square until 2020 because they (anarchists) chased them away. Junkies, drug dealers, bloody fights and gun shots was a usual thing that time and the only thing that kept me safe was that I talked with most of them cause I worked there and they got to know me. Of course there are more dangerous places in the center of Athens like Metaxourgio or Omonia but the most dangerous are a bit far from the center and no youtuber have visited any of them yet.
I did visit one market and I don't know what to do with the footage. It was depressing. I love Greece, but that one market was just something else. Any recommendation on what to make it?
7:12 Acropolis was built in the middle of the 5th century BC .. you’re welcome
I appreciate it. 😅
Hi bro you know what I missed you a lot ❤
Bro recorded the video on the Greek easter!!Φίλε δεν κατάλαβες ότι όταν είναι έρημα σημαίνει ότι είναι μια γιορτή
garlic sauce differs from djagiki sauce and obviously from tahini.
it is the flavor and the ingredidients used
i'ld never put tahini along with meat
maybe use garlic sauce instead of djagiki but this would be an experiment.
what you eat is souvlaki and you can use almost any kind of sauce but not tahini.
also the OG wrapped souvlaki has no fried potatoes.
So what i understand is that the difference is mainly the sauces, right?
As a resident there for more than a year - it is far worst than "bad". Awful urbanisation, no green areas, public transport - nightmare. The "native" Omonia and Metaxourgeio, the armies of tourists in the center, the constant violent protests... I don't know a single greek, who lived somewhere else and to have a good word for Athens.
True about the public transport, but Metaxourgio is OK and Athens has similar to other big cities. You still have great food, best service, lots of Cultural options, etc. Anyone who lived in big cities abroad just loves Athens.
Honestly, Athens is fantastic.
Well, after traveling around Greece, I thought Athens is the least pretty place. Which in terms of natural beauty is kind of true, but the lifestyle, the way people do things, the political opinions, the bars, and everything just feel like the 70s. Even the hairstyles.
@@AdventuresFactory The hairstyles like the 70s? Where? I think is very fashionable. More hipster and queer then Berlin.
@user-qb1kb9bz9q the mustache fashion. Lol.. In Canada, you barely see the mustache alone. I was surprised to see many people rocking the Ron Jeremy look. 😅
Did you visit italia then u will realise how much best Greece for tourists compare to Italy
I'm for sure considering Italy. I'm sure it will be brilliant.
omonia is not that bad anymore Metaxourgeio well its bit different
Yeah I actually loved Omonoia. It was so much fun.
Όλα τα κτίρια στην Ομόνοια πρέπει να γκρεμιστούν είναι άσχημα
In Athens while watching this😂
You'll have a great time. 👍
@ leaving after 3 days😔
You should go Arachova or the monasteries on the mountains.
Just for not false information the small temple that they say was an original and then copy pasted for acropolis isn't that it is actually Hephaestus temple😅
bro you haven't seen anything serious going on in Exarchia Syntagma and all around,if you want to experience this..ask about dates like 6th December to come back.
Ohhh 😅.. I would love to, but I also love my life. It's a tough decision to make.
@@AdventuresFactory your life is not in danger from the people. Beware of the police
Go to a certain adress in metaksourgeio and you will come out naked.
I prefer to stay dressed. 😁
I live at the foot of the mountains u see in the back 😁 never regretted a day moved to these mountains
The mountains are brilliant in Greece. They're amazing.
@@AdventuresFactory I walk out of my door and there is the entrance into the mountains.
And for cheap food go to suburbains u will never see the resl Greece in these areas
Athens is safe as a big city. Omonia isn’t dangerous just little sketchy. Y’all relax
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so that is why for every 4 people there is a black man dressed in gangster clothing
Exarcheia is not representative 4 Athens like Soho is not representative 4 London .
You also stayed in Exarchia which is the anarchists' hub. Police always have a presence there, it is not indicative of the rest of Athens. Next time don't stay in Exarchia.
No.. Athens, in general, didn't have a lot of police presence. It's very calm. I'm still making other videos on Greece. That was my first impressions video.
Musaka from Ukraine
🤔 are you claiming Musakaa? 😄
@@AdventuresFactory The one you ate is from Ukraine. Most restaurants, specially in touristic places, due to economic crisis buy frozen plates from other cheaper countries. It's more convenient than preparing a fresh one pay an employee and pay the electricity...Of course in a country in debts the quality of everything falls. Don't come to Greece!!!
where's guys with USSR T-shirts?
No tourists in Exarchia
To describe athens as dangerous is ridiculous. You obviously have no idea what dangerous means. People here take pride in being described as alternative crooks. Next time let's meet in the Honduras
Did you watch the video?
@@AdventuresFactory I actually answer to the commentators.
Sorry for the misunderstanding
@@1skaldur lol.. no worries
Ok, you are right, Athens is not the most dangerous city of the planet, only of europe. Congrats.
i always hear bombs and guns bro..... in greece
Really? In the city?
@@AdventuresFactory well im in attiki- athens so i hear everything with my mom
The only dangerous thing in Exarchia was always police and its intentions.
Until 2018 Exarchia was an alterntative area with a lot of movements co existing like leftists and anarchists and every weekend also youngsters of hipster roots. But always police, either covered or uncovered, staged provocations or excessive control after demos. Also, we had several murders from police at that area since ever(Kaltezas,Koumis,Kanellopoulou,Grigoropoulos).
So ,except of a lively neighborhood,was a fully political one and thus fully policed. Exarchia were aimed from deep state of Greece and were in the epicentre of everything social and resisting in Athens.
Now its busier and uglier and POLICED with a metro station ruining its cell, the Exarchia square where solidarity and politics use to exist, now is gentrification and police!
Im from greece and ik athens messy its not oike america if it was like america it had to win the ottomans
You can't compare. America is nice. Greece is nice, too, in a different way. The mountains in Greece are especially magnificent.
So many false information in this video
If you are a Tourist DONT go to Exarchia
Well, yes and no. I guess it depends on what type of tourist it is.
7:58 what does she mean by that exactly? teach her some history or cut that part...or better have a trip in an english museum and see where the rest 'meh' are
F Exarcheia.
Acropolis is approx 2 k years old..built in 5BC
Not 5BC, 5th century BC. There's a big difference.
athina is not the goddess of war my dude :)
In Britannica it says "In ancient Greek religion, Athena was a goddess of war, handicraft, and practical reason."
Ο ΦΙΛΕ ΚΑΛΟΣΗΡΘΕΣ (translate)
well the translation just says "friend kalosirthes. lol.. what does that mean?
Bad compared to what??
Usually they compare it to the rest of Greece.
Hellas not Greece ....
It's very likely u get robbed cause people aint that fortunate there
I didn't and I'm not that fortunate
@AdventuresFactory maybe they were scared to show their true identity due to the camera its pretty sad in exarchia and centre of athens u should check out another dangerous location that is not so known to outsiders, Dentropotamos Thessaloniki u going to be shocked
@AdventuresFactory Menidi Athens, Korydallos Athens could also be more dangerous cause majority of the population is poor or gypsies
did you see my next video? what do you think of Eleonas are?
area*
"Canada" "land of no law" 😂 imagine what they call the US now... When I was a kid, any westerner was "ameriki" 😂
No they didn't. The revolution failed and the junta failed because Turks invaded Cyprus a year later
living in omonia and complaining about athens, wow. also athena was the goddess of wisdom and ares was the god of war
I like it, actually. I thought the vibe was hip and interesting.
Ares hotel yea been there
The god of war was Aris, aka Mars. Athena was the goddess of wisdom. It’s not the best thing, to start off a video with misinformation..
lol i hve been almost everywhere in europe and istanbul too, athens doesnt crack even the top 50 of unsafe big cities in europe.
click bait title, not watching this shit downvoted
Which one is the most dangerous in your opinion?
Dude your part on exarchia is so sensationalistic , exarchia these days is vanilla... I grew up there from the 80s till early 20... back then it was hardcore and these "shells" is just flash bangs for crowd control, is not sketchy nowdays is more gentrified by stupid riot porn youtubers and overall idiots, half of it is bought by israelis and the other half by Chinese to be turned to airbnb and serviced apartments
I found it to be a place with character
Athens is the ugliest capital in Europe and one of the dirtiest. Only the area around the Acropolis is nice. During the Greek financial crisis property was sold for peanuts in Athens and now the people who bought want to make millions out of it by advertising the city like a mixture of Paris and Berlin 😂. It's a place that floods in the first autumn rain and burns in summertime (this year the fires even got deep into the suburbs)
The immigrants here have been a real problem for us.
albanians especially
@@Otto_von_bismarck5 albanians might be the worse thing that has happened to this nation
@@captainjim1010 the reason the pop is collapsing is albanians promoting promiscuity
Maybe your are not welcome to Greece.. go away ..
I have been there dozen times .. !!! No & never I had any problems..
Pls empty the place ... For some one else with better breans
Lol.. watch the video.
Tourists go home
Speaking about myself, I'm home? The question is, are you home? 🤔
Ρε ηλίθιε που ξέρεις ότι δεν είναι Έλληνας στο σπίτι του 😅
I'm from the Netherlands myself after 8 years here it isn't that bad in Athens.
Just integrate in Greece and adapt yourself with the local customs and you will be fine.
And the bomb well that's the cops shooting tear gas but you will be fine 😂😂
you come from the netherlands where there are sex shops on the street and leftism is your main value of course you gonna see no problem with greece a country losing its identity
No men Athens and omonia square ain't dat dangerous...you ain't seen north London or south park ...Los Angeles