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Visit Academy of Athens, Greece
The main building of the Academy of Athens was designed in a neoclassical style in 1859 CE by the Danish architect Theophil Hansen (1813-1891 CE). Construction was not completed until 1885 CE, however. Athena and Apollo stand atop the two pillars while Plato—who founded his own Academy in Athens around 387 BCE—and Socrates sit on either side of the stairway, all statues by Leonidas Drosis.
The Academy itself was established in 1926 CE. The preeminent research establishment in Greece, it maintains multiple facilities in three Orders: Natural Sciences, Letters and Arts, and Moral and Political Sciences.
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