The Ministry of Culture, done the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens, is proceeding with the restoration of the Mycenaean partition connected the eastbound plateau of the Acropolis successful the country of the Old Museum. This circumstantial task constitutes a important measurement for the protection, but besides the promotion, of 1 of the astir important surviving parts of the Mycenaean fortification of the Rock of the Acropolis of Athens. For the archetypal time, done the caller way that volition beryllium formed, the eastbound portion of the plateau of the archaeological tract is being restored, promoted and made accessible to visitors.
The restoration of the Mycenaean wall, adjacent the Old Museum of the Acropolis, was deemed necessary, arsenic it protects and highlights 1 of the champion preserved parts of the Mycenaean fortification of the Acropolis. Today, the country is not unfastened to the public, arsenic it was chiefly utilized for storing scattered architectural members. Upon completion of the works, successful the archetypal fractional of 2026, the country eastbound and northbound of the Old Museum volition beryllium opened to the public, portion a peculiar visitant way is being created, based connected the plan survey for the eastbound portion of the Acropolis plateau.
The scope of the task is the consolidation and restoration of 2 sections of the Mycenaean wall, successful the eastbound portion of the Acropolis plateau: Section A of the Mycenaean wall, located east-southeast of the Old Museum, with its instauration visible, connected the earthy rock, and conception B of the Mycenaean partition located successful the underground country of the Old Museum, with its northern-internal facet visible. In bid to measure the authorities of conservation, successful narration to that of the find of the 2 sections of the wall, the photographic archive of the German Archaeological Institute of Athens was utilized. According to the documentary worldly and the restoration survey of the Mycenaean wall, six much scattered stones are attributed to the wall, which were identified successful adjacent locations.
In parallel with the conservation enactment of the supra sections of the Mycenaean wall, 2 sections of the instauration and 2 parallel walls of the Sanctuary of Pandion are being conserved, successful the country of the Old Acropolis Museum. All interventions travel the principles of respect for the humanities phases of the monuments, reversibility of interventions, minimal involution and the information of visitors and workers.
The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, stated: "The Acropolis, successful summation to being a apical monument of classical antiquity, is besides a spot wherever grounds from antithetic humanities periods coexist and are preserved. By restoring and highlighting the Mycenaean wall, 1 of the champion preserved parts of the prehistoric fortification, and shaping the caller visitant route, we are preserving a unsocial monument. We are shedding airy connected the past of the metropolis implicit a agelong humanities period, implicit a agelong play of time, offering visitors the accidental to larn astir aspects of the past of the Acropolis Rock, which until present person remained invisible and chartless to the wide public. The task is successful transportation with the upgrading and reopening with caller uses of the Old Museum, but besides with the ongoing restoration and promotion projects of the Acropolis monuments. The upgrading of the services provided to visitors to the archaeological tract of the Acropolis has been continuing systematically since 2020. Recently, caller routes person been added, specified arsenic the locomotion connected the northbound slope, which adhd caller experiences for visitors, portion a caller ODAP store is besides operating, which meets the needs of this circumstantial archaeological site. Consequently, we are serving the involution program for the champion imaginable extortion and promotion of the monumental ensemble, the enlargement of the visitant acquisition and its optimal accessibility.
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