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The Piraeus Archaeological Museum offers the visitor a complete image of the city’s history, which was marked by great sevelopment during the ancient times, both as a commercial center of the eastern Mediterranean, and also as a naval base of ancient Athens.
The collection of tombal monuments from the area of the northern cemetery of the ancient city was the center of the Piraeus Archaeological Museum’s collection. This small, but important collection, was first housed in the city’s high school, on Korai square. In 1935, the first Archaeological Museum of Piraeus was founded, situated in the small building of eclecticistic style on Filellinon str., on the northern side of Zea theatre.
The museum as it stands today, was founded in 1966 as an extension of the old one, and opened its gates to the public in 1981. The Piraeus Archaeological Museum offers the visitor a complete image of the city’s history, which was marked by great sevelopment during the ancient times, both as a commercial center of the eastern Mediterranean, and also as a naval base of ancient Athens
Lakkos was the pre-eminent neighborhood of underground world in Heraklion. In the narrow streets of its magkes walked, known-unknowns bullies, prostitutes selling love, rebetes improvised songs on their old bouzouki, hashish was a daily habit and generally was a cell of society that had disrupted th
The Alexandroupoli Ecclesiastical Museum houses the collection of ecclesiastic objects that were collected from the churches and monasteries of the Alexandroupoli Metropolis.
The Museum of the History of the Greek Costume is a museum with a vestiary content. In its collection one can find 25.000 objects, especially costumes and jewellery of the historic greek area, copies of Minoan, archaic and byzantine costumes, as well as 23 porcelane dolls dressed in traditional outfits.
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