A leading Greek foundation on Friday unveiled a sprawling new park, opera and national library in southern Athens designed to “give hope” to a country brought low by a six-year economic crisis.
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The new Stavros Niarchos Cultural Center, expected to fully open in mid-2017, occupies 20 hectares (50 acres) overall near the coast of Faliro in southern Athens.
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The new national library can easily accommodate the 700,000 volumes that currently make up Greece’s state depository, with eventual space for up to two million books, organisers said.
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