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Zappeion

Zappeion

Also known as Ζάππειο

Year

1888

Style

Neoclassical

Type

building

Built with funding from the Greek-Romanian entrepreneur Evangelis Zappas as a venue for the revival of the Olympic Games, several decades before the 1896 Games, the Zappeion is a circular domed hall surrounded by a colonnaded peristyle of…

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  1. 1888

    Original construction

    Theophil Hansen

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