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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Derek Gatopoulos and Theodora Tongas

Athens’ all-marble Olympic Stadium gets first major clean in a century

A worker cleans the marble surfaces of the Panathenaic Stadium, also known as ‘Kallimarmaro’, or beautiful marble, which hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 - (AP)

Athens’ famed Panathenaic Stadium – which hosted the first modern Olympic Games – is undergoing its first thorough cleaning in more than a century.

The venue, constructed entirely from white marble, requires painstaking care as it shares the same stone source as the Acropolis.

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