00:01The Panatheneic Stadium has welcomed marathon runners, rock stars and the athletes of the first modern Olympic Games.
00:09Built entirely of white marble, it is undergoing its first systematic cleaning in more than a century.
00:15It was reconstructed for the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and also serves as a site of the Olympic
00:20flame handover ceremony,
00:22including preparation for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
00:52The process requires special care as the stadium is made
00:54of the same gleaming marble used on the Acropolis, a fact that makes cleaning a particularly delicate and demanding task.
01:01The cleaning work reveals the marks left on the historic monument by the passage of time, weather conditions and millions
01:06of visitors.
01:06The goal of cleaning is not to make everything white, it is to remove the dirt and the first layers
01:12of organic material that is deposited on the surface.
01:15With the growth is something that is fully problematic for monuments, because they expand, they have the attention to be
01:23bigger,
01:24in some cases they leave material that is leave stains on top of the marbles.
01:28As the work progresses, the stadium's original glow is gradually being restored.
01:33After all, it is the stadium's pure white gleaming marble that gave it its widely known Greek name, Kalimarmaro, meaning
01:40beautiful marble.
01:43in the stadium's original glow, the space gives it to be completely different.
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