The subterranean Syntagma Square metro station is a busy interchange between two metro lines connecting the airport and main commercial and political centre of the city. It also provides connections back through time, to day-to-day life in Ancient Athens. The amphorae, column capitals, walls and drains on display date back to when the area was full of cemeteries and bronze foundries two and a half millennia before. They were unearthed during the excavation of the station, which opened in 2000, part of a new underground network designed to help the city’s drive to improve public infrastructure and cut air pollution from traffic in advance of hosting the 2004 Olympic Games. I (rgw)
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