00:01The Panatheneia 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
00:18and also serves as a site of the Olympic Flame handover ceremony, including preparation for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
00:27The process requires special care as the stadium is made of the same gleam,
00:31as it seems to be the same.
00:32The national Olympic Games was born in 1896.
00:42It had to be done by all of these things that have been incorporated all these years.
00:47So, the international stage will show all the creativity.
00:52The process requires special care as the stadium is made of the same gleam,
00:55the 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,
01:04whether conditions and millions of visitors.
01:07The goal of the cleaning is not to make everything white.
01:09It's to remove the dirt and the first layers of organic material that is deposited on the surface.
01:15With the growth is something that is fully problematic for monuments,
01:20because they expand, they have the attention to be bigger.
01:24In some cases, they leave material that is leave stains on top of the marbles.
01:29As 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,
01:39Calimarmarro, meaning beautiful marble.
01:43Calimarmarro!
01:44Calimari faj Funny
01:45Calimari
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