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Faliron Delta sunset
Allow me, please, just a few words about the spot where this picture was taken.
Faliron Delta is actually the southern tip of the city of Athens and the place where the city meets the sea. As a spot of great environmental importance, it was one of the very few sites close to Athens without major constructions and buildings at the seafront. It was and still is important for the city air circulation and the renewal of the air through the sea breeze which could reach the city and its inhabitants without being obstructed. It was also important for the migrating birds which stopped at this very site on their way from the European North to the South and Africa.
Unfortunately, this huge free space was chosen as a site for the building of several courts, stadiums, buildings, marinas and general infrastructure for the occasion of the 2004 Olympic Games. The result was a big and quite violent intervention in Nature. An intervention which was only practical during the Olympics... The buildings, the stadiums and the infrastructure have not actually been used since the Olympics and only stand deserted as a monument to human shortsightedness.
There still remains free space however... although one does not see anymore the number and kind of migrating birds that used to stop there and take a break...
"Explored" on January 23, 2009. #7
Faliron Delta sunset
Allow me, please, just a few words about the spot where this picture was taken.
Faliron Delta is actually the southern tip of the city of Athens and the place where the city meets the sea. As a spot of great environmental importance, it was one of the very few sites close to Athens without major constructions and buildings at the seafront. It was and still is important for the city air circulation and the renewal of the air through the sea breeze which could reach the city and its inhabitants without being obstructed. It was also important for the migrating birds which stopped at this very site on their way from the European North to the South and Africa.
Unfortunately, this huge free space was chosen as a site for the building of several courts, stadiums, buildings, marinas and general infrastructure for the occasion of the 2004 Olympic Games. The result was a big and quite violent intervention in Nature. An intervention which was only practical during the Olympics... The buildings, the stadiums and the infrastructure have not actually been used since the Olympics and only stand deserted as a monument to human shortsightedness.
There still remains free space however... although one does not see anymore the number and kind of migrating birds that used to stop there and take a break...
"Explored" on January 23, 2009. #7