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The Tegea Archaeological Museum is a place where the visitor can enjoy works belonging to the highest inspiration times of ancient Greek sculpture.
The Tegea Archaeological Museum is a place where the visitor can enjoy works belonging to the highest inspiration times of ancient Greek sculpture.
The Tegea Archaeological Museum was built between 1907-1908 in what was then known as Piali (now Alea) of Tegea. The purposes of the museum’s construction were two: a) to protect and exhibit all the important finings from the temple of Athena of Alea and b) to collect and safeguard all the ancient findings of Tegea’s land, which were laying around or stacked and not adequetly protected in small local archaeological collections.
Through the Tegea Archaeological Museum’s development, we can observe the efforts of the free Greek nation comcerning the rescue and exhibition of the local culture of Tegea.
The most important monument of the era of the Knights in Rhodes, is the Palace of the Great Magistrate. During the 1930’s, while under Italian occupation, the building acquired its modern form, being the commanding center as well as the house of the Italian Commander. The mosaic floors of the floor are amazing.
The Cycladic Art Museum was founded in 1986, in order to house the collection of exhibits of Cycladic and Ancient Greek art, of Nikolaos and Ekaterini Goulandri.
The Inscription Museum is unique in Greece, and the largest of its kind in the world. In it there are 13.536 inscriptions, mostly written in Greek. Chronologically, they cover the times from the first historic times to the paleochristianic, and most of them come from Greece.
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