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INTRODUCTION The Old Palace is now the headquarters of the Greek Parliament. This neoclassical building designed by notable architect of Bavarian kitchen decorating ideas Royal Court of Bavaria Friedrich von Gärtner (1792-1847) and is located in Syntagma Square in Athens. It served as a palace of Otto and subsequently by George I until 1910, where he settled in later in Herod Atticus, so I called in the Old Palace. On the west side of the building stood on the site of the Monument of the Unknown kitchen decorating ideas Soldier, and the exteriors of both the eastern and southern side of the top stood a large single national garden, which still exists today.
The CONSTRUCTION The building was constructed in the period 1836-1847, kitchen decorating ideas to be the palace of King Otto, after the transfer of the state capital from Nafplio to Athens in 1834 was erected at the expense of King Ludwig I of Bavaria, as a personal loan to Otto .
The final choice of site for the erection of the old palace was made by Gärtner himself kitchen decorating ideas in late 1835, after the rejection of the proposals of Cleanthi, Schaubert, Klenze and Schinkel who predicted positions Omonia Square, and Acropolis Ceramic respectively, where the latter had react and Louis himself, his father Otto.
In particular, the area of construction proposed by Gärtner was then the intersection of Stadium (bypass time) and Hermes, on the neck formed between the Acropolis and Lycabettus hill, except that the most healthy climate kitchen decorating ideas pictured, dominated and then Athens at the eastern end, near the gate of "Boubounistra." So the Gärtner mandated to prepare the building kitchen decorating ideas plans, which was very little time at the short residence time in Athens (from December 1835 until March 1836), where he was a feat that only large concentration of skills could bring out.
The foundation of the building took place on 25 January (old dated.) / February 6 (new dated.) 1836, in the presence of Louis I and the ambassadors of the Great Powers. In March, the Gärtner returned to Munich, leaving the management of the construction of the building in the Bavarian Lieutenant Slaughter and thickness. The Gärtner, in his office in Munich, studying completions preparing all the details reaching the number of 247 projects involving only the building of the palace in Athens. Today these plans are included in the large collection Moniger Munich, while a very small number of them were given to the museum kitchen decorating ideas of the House showing the care of every detail.
Basic materials used in the construction of the building was stone, marble and wood sourced, although the stone mainly from Hymettus, Lycabettus Hill and the area "Pinakota" Athens area Strefis kitchen decorating ideas next hill, and the marble came mainly from Penteli, few of Hymettus, also a few of Tinos, Paros, Naxos and a minimum of Carrara and Genoa in Italy and finally the wood came from Euboea. Touching was the attendance of many residents and especially islanders seeking to work selflessly in the construction of the palace, as Tinian, Sifnaiou, Paros, Naxos, etc.
Finally just completed buildings walls in November kitchen decorating ideas 1840, the Gärtner returned to Athens to oversee the continuation of building and painting interior decoration deliberately bringing together of the famous painters of historical performances of the season, Johann Schraudolf, Urlich Halbreiter and Josef Kranzburger who also took the large murals kitchen decorating ideas depicting scenes from Greek mythology, and the Greek Revolution of 1821, especially in the trophy room. After a three-month stay in the Gärtner returned again to Munich leaving this time in place of the mechanical Riedel, for the completion of the building. The installation of the royal couple Otto and Amalia was on 25 July (old dated.) / August 6 (new dated.) 1843 (just a month before a new building for the first (but not last) time, the scene of a dramatic event in Greek political history, revolution rd September. Several work but continued until 1847 (eg the big staircase), while some were not completed despite ten years later (like paintings).
BUILDING DESCRIPTION The Old Palace, according to the plans of the Gärtner, is a rather simple (rather than volume) rectangular three-storey neoclassical building, with the ground floor, with two axes of symmetry which the true main East - West axis coincides with the axis Ermou Street, the longest time of Athens, and the minor axis perpendicular to the center during the previous North - South tau