Thursday, August 03, 2006

The palm tree .

This palm tree decorate the pavement of Panepistimiou street .Panepistimiou street is a main street that leads in Omonoia square .
There is a very sad story about palm trees in Athens :
at the previous century (1920 -1925 ) our goverment had decided to uproot many palm trees , because this tree brings back exotic countries and they didn't want to consider Greece as an exotic place !
Yes, we are idiots ...
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2 Comments:

Blogger Kala said...

interesting - palm trees here cost a lot of money so no one would even imagine uprooting them - I guess its value is relative to where you live

Friday, August 04, 2006 12:09:00 AM  
Blogger Rodney said...

Nice colors. I like the color sturation of your photos.

Monday, August 07, 2006 9:04:00 AM  

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