Port of Plenty Look Past the Industrial Waterfront of Patras, This Year's European Capital of Culture, and You'll Find Some Great Open- Air Drama and All the Tumbledown Romance of a City with a Glorious Past, Says Robin Gauldie
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As you roll off the boat from Italy, Patras offers an unprepossessing welcome to the glories of Greece. Rusting cargo boats, dredgers and ferries and an industrial quayside seem very far from the white cottages and blue-domed churches you may have been expecting. There's a strong temptation to push on through to prettier parts, as I did the first few times I got off the ferry here.
But hold on: there is more to Greece's third city than first meets the eye. Patras's new landmark, the Rio-Antirio road bridge, for example, is one of Europe's most beautiful pieces of engineering - a swoop of pylons and cables poised above the narrows of the Gulf of Corinth, linking Patras, on the southern shore, with the northern mainland.See the full content of this document
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Port of Plenty Look Past the Industrial Waterfront of Patras, This Year's European Capital of Culture, and You'll Find Some Great Open- Air Drama and All the Tumbledown Romance of a City with a Glorious Past, Says Robin Gauldie
As so often happens with grand Greek projects, the plans to rejuvenate Patras for its big year as European Capital of Culture have - for the time being - run into the sand: the waterfront is still undergoing improvement. It wa...
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