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People love it, people hate it, people want to put a bubble dome around it to preserve the marble from the acidity of the city’s smog. They talk about how it’s the one thing that compelled them to come to Athens. They talk about getting the PARTHENON marbles (Elgin my foot) back from the Brits. Bygone era or not, this place is the symbolic heart of Greece. True story: during the Nazi occupation, the Germans took the Greek flag off the Acropolis and erected a Swastiki in its place. One night, a couple Greek kids (teens?) stole up the outcropping and replaced the Nazi flag with the Greek one. Of course, it was a symbolic coup for the Hellenes and a pick-me-up if there ever was one. I believe the young men kept their mouths shut until the war was over.
