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A few words about Greek Architecture

Greece Architecture has influenced all the movement of architecte through the world: the movement of Renaissance of Italy and the British Greek revival. Many of the architectural masterpieces of the world were influenced by the Greece architecture. All the visitors who travel to Greece and the Greek Islands are always impresses by the diversity of architecture.

Periods of architecture:

The Minoan Civilization (1800-1300 BC)

The most important monuments of the site were: the palace, the wall-painted "cult-center", the Lion gate and "Grave Circle A" which contained the treasures.

Archaic and Classical Greek architecture

The most important period of architecture of Greece is visible by the period of the construction of the first monumental marble temples from the Archaic and classical periods. Those temples are characterised by different orders:

The Corinthian architecture

It is the last order of the classical order. The columns of the Corinthians temples were by a single or double row of leafy scrolls, usually acanthus. This order was mostly used by the Romans. One of the mostinteresting examples of the Corinthian architecture is the Roman temple of Olympian Zeus in Athens. This temple was an enormous structure of 104 columns of 17 meters high.


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