Travel Guide

Louis Vuitton, proud for its luxury culture, so, must do something about the culture. That is Travel Notebook series. It seems to say hi friends, do not indulge in the material world. You need some fresh spirit to enrich your mind. Just like us, Louis Vuitton. In fact, we care about the culture more about our clothes and bags. So, get our travel notebook, travel around the world, and write down every marvelous moment. By the way, if you like, Louis Vuitton outfits will give you a gorgeous and sumptuous journey.

It is indeed a sly yet smart merchant. Nevertheless, that does not interfere with Travel Notebook series. There are six Travel Notebooks, respectively Paris, New York, Rio, Athens, Mumbai, and Peking. My favorite is Athens.

The pure blue is from Aegean Sea. The painting on the cover is the famous Athenaeum. Travel Notebook Athens catches the city’s features and enchants my heart. I really love that city. Everywhere is blue and white. Pure, simple, and unaffected, far away from prosperity and fickleness, it is Athens.

Walk along the narrow pebble street, gaze the endless Aegean Sea, chat with local people, and enjoy the local cuisine. Then go back to the hotel to write down your feeling on the travel notebook. I have to say, it is a so special and absorbing experience nowadays. Every people are used to computer. But you still write down everything on paper. It is a process to find yourself, the origin one, through silently writing.

The Athens Transit System consists of a large bus fleet, a trolleybus fleet that mainly serves the downtown area. The city’s Metro, a tram line connecting the southern suburbs to the city centre, and the Athens Suburban Railway service..

Athens Metro
While its main purpose is transport, the stations house Greek artifacts found during construction of the system. The two lines (red and blue) were constructed largely during the 1990s and the initial sections opened in January 2000. The lines run entirely underground. The metro network operates a fleet of 42 trains consisting of 252 cars with a daily occupancy of 550,000 passengers. The Blue Line runs from the western suburbs  through the central Monastiraki and Syntagma stations to the northeastern suburbs  and covers a distance of 16 km (10 mi), It then ascends to ground level and reaches Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport using the Suburban Railway infrastructure and extending its distance to 39 km (24 mi). The Red Line runs from Aghios Antonios to Aghios Dimitrios and covers a distance of 11.6 km (7 mi). Extensions to both these lines are under construction, most notably westwards to Piraeus and southwards to the Old Hellinikon Airport East Terminal (the future Metropolitan Park). The spring 2007 extension from Monastiraki, westwards to Egaleo, connected some of the main night life hubs of the city of Athens, namely Gazi (Kerameikos station), Psirri (Monastiraki station) and the city centre (Syntagma station).

Electric railway
This network runs the original metro line from Piraeus to Kifisia and serves 22 stations, with a network length of 25.6 km (15.9 mi), a fleet of 44 trains and 243 cars and a daily occupancy rate of 600,000 passengers. The historic Green Line is set to be extended to Agios Stefanos, a suburb located 23 km (14 mi) to the north of the city centre, reaching to 36 km (22 mi) in length.

This way, the Acropolis is the most visited destination in not only Athens, but in the entire Greece as well, being a major attraction for tourists from around the world who approach this region in order to meet these constructions.

The Acropolis hill, also known as the Sacred Rock, contains several ancient symbolic constructions such as per example, the Parthenon, the Temple of Nike, and the Erechtheion. These spots, built within the years 450 and 330 BC have gone through several different historical moments and meeting them is without any doubt as meeting the past in the present.

The Parthenon, in The Acropolis, is the most symbolic construction from Ancient Greece. The Parthenon was built between the years 446 and 432 BC in honor to the Goddess of Athens Athena Parthenos. This construction was built almost entirely with Pentelic marble and shows 8 columns at its two shorter sides and 17 columns at its longer ones, containing a statue of Athena in its central area.

The Temple of Athena Nike, another major construction in The Acropolis, was built around the year 420 BC. This construction shows four columns at its shorter sides and walls in the larger sides. This construction’s walls contains depictures of gods’ conferences and battles at each side. The Erechtelion, is another major construction in The Acropolis. This construction was originally divided in two main sections which were dedicated to the Goddess Athena and the God Poseidon.

Another major spot located in The Acropolis in Athena is The Propylaea. The Propylaea was built between the years 436 and 431 BC following a design of the architect Mnesikles. This construction was built with the purpose of being the main entrance to The Acropolis and contains rows of columns and decorated walls. It is interesting to know that, due to its paintingsFeature Articles, this construction is often known as the Pinakotheke.