Gazi, Athens is one of the most well known and most frequently visited Tourist Attractions in Athens. The Gazi, Athens is actually a factory that was built in the year1857. Gazi, Athens had started its functioning in the year1862 and shut down its furnaces on the month of August in1984. It was the last factory in Europe that was carrying out in a conventional way till it was closed. Today, the Gazi, Athens is transformed into the City of Athens Technopolis.
The City of Athens Technopolis, that is best known as Gazi, Athens, encompasses an area of approximately 30.000 square meters. This has a vital industrial museum which has a brilliant architecture. This is one of the most impressive of its sorts in Europe. It is housed in the old Athens Gasworks, which was extensively recognized as Gazi, beside the Keramikos. It is also in close vicinity to the Acropolis. The steady conversion into a multi-purpose cultural center, Gazi, Athens hosts a range of events giving an opportunity to the travelers to travel around the site. The charisma of a bygone period will astound you. See the funnels, the gasholders, the chimney stacks and retort furnaces here.
Gazi, Athens has been in service from the year 1999 and it is devoted to the memory of the great Greek composer Manos Chatzidakis. In tribute of Greek poetry, the eight structures operating within the Technopolis or Gazi, Athens premises, stand with the names of great Greek poets. Some eminent poets among them are Andreas Embirikos, Yannis Ritsos, Angelos Sikelianos, Kostis Palamas, Constantine Cavafis, Takis Papatsonis and Kostas Varnalis.
Apart from the Gazi, Athens, there are other Tourist Attractions in Athens which are worth a visit and these are Acropolis Museum, National Archeological Museum of Athens, The Ancient Agora, Roman Agora and Tower of the Wind, Arch of Hadrian, The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Theatre of Herodes Atticus, The Lycabetous Hill, The Attalos stoa Museum, Parthenon (Parthenonas), Syntagma Square, Plaka, Constitution Square (Syntagma), Monastiraki, Psiri, Kolonaki, Pireos and Ermou Street, Omonia Square, Bouleterion and Kaisariani Monastery (Kessariani).
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