Visa to Greece for citizens of Uzbekistan is seen at the Italian Embassy.
Required documents Tourist visas to Greece:
Passport, which expires no less than 4 months after the alleged return of the country
The second valid passport (if any), it is also desirable to introduce the old (canceled) containing Schengen visas
A copy of the internal passport (all pages except empty)
2 form, completed and signed by his own hand (passport data in Latin script).
2 photos (passport-size)
Letter from the employer on company letterhead indicating position, salary, date of admission to the post
health insurance
Hotel reservation
Reservation flight arrival and departure
Documentation (credit card with the account statements, securities, etc.), confirming the availability of funds on the basis of per day
For a child traveling with one parent (or other relatives accompanying persons) must submit a notarized authorization in Russian from the remaining parent (s) to leave the child abroad
Submission of documents is carried out only in person, after writing to file documents through a commercial information center Consular Section of the Embassy of Italy.
Embassy of Italy
st. Yusuf Hodzhib Hawes, 40, Tashkent 100031
Tel.: + 99871/2521119/2521120/2521121/2521123
Fax: +99871/1206606
Email: segreteria.tashkent@esteri.it
Opening hours consular and visa sections for the reception of visitors:
- From Tuesday to Friday from 09:00 to 12:00
- Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00 to 16:00 (delivery of documents)
E-mail:
Consular Section consolare.tashkent@esteri.it
Visa Section visti.tashkent@esteri.it
Athens - an era in the history not only of European history, but also the world of culture. Athens - a city of philosophers and commanders, sculptors and architects. It is a modern metropolis, diverse and colorful. Athens - capital of Greece!
Resorts
Arriving in Greece, does not necessarily rush to the island to enjoy the warm sea, the resort atmosphere, clean beaches and excellent coffee or a light lunch at the water. We offer a list of great and free beaches, where the center of the city can be reached by public transport.
Votsalakya (Castella) One of the most popular beaches for those living in Piraeus: the beach is located between the yacht port Zeya and Castella.
Sandy beach "Eden" in Palio Faliro, reachable by tram from Syntagma Square: stop "Eden". His name was on the beach it is located on the restaurant.
Beach Agios Kosmas in the place (Poseidon Avenue, the southern regions of Athens): something for which to be paid to other beaches - umbrellas, deckchairs, etc. the municipality provides for free. The beach is also easily accessible by tram: it is located directly behind the sports facilities at the former airport "Elliniko". Entrance to the beach - with footbridge Poseidon Avenue.
Glyfada beach, although it is one of the most densely populated areas of Athens, looks secluded compared to other, located just a few hundred meters.
One of the most beautiful beaches of Attica - Kavouri (Crab), and a few hundred meters - Megalo Kavouri (Big Crab).
Lumbarda (Koropi) - closed bay at the 33rd kilometer Sounio Avenue, where you can swim, even when the rest of Attica is blown by strong winds.
Galazii Akti (Cote d'Azur) - on the 37th kilometer of the prospectus Sounio: tiny but amazingly beautiful beach of fine white sand.
Pefkos Beach - on the 41st kilometer avenue Sounio.
At 46 km the same avenue Sounion, near Saronida, located beach Mavro lythari (Black Stone), derives its name from the black rock. Half of the beach - with umbrellas and sunbeds - paid half - free, but nevertheless - in no way inferior to the first of its natural advantages.
In the area Anavissos beach is Agios Nikolaos (St. Nicholas) -Huge sandy beach sunbathing in which you believe that you are transported to the Hawaiian Islands. Beach caters to small mobile buffet. On the 54th kilometer of the prospectus is a wild beach Sounio Timaru, the entrance to which is located on the corner.
Pasalimani (Liman Pasha) in Sounio: the beach, which is almost known only to those who live in the same village. To find him, you must turn on the 73rd kilometer Sounio Avenue and drive through the village.
Geography
In Russian name of the capital of Greece sounds like it should be - in the plural, as it once sounded in ancient Greek and modern Greek, up to the 70s of the 20th century (!) Until finally out of use has not disappeared "Katharevousa" artificial archaic Greek official written language.
Greek Athens same sound as "Athena" and the name of the goddess Athena city name differs only in emphasis: in the first case - to "and" in the second case - the last "a".
But no matter how the name of this gorgeous ancient city, one conclusion can be drawn: Athens of its ancient splendor is not lost, even becoming a metropolis: a city covers an area of 41,200 acres, bounded by mountains Egaleo, Parnifa, Pendeli and Imittos.
In the capital of Greece is home to one-third of the total population - 3,074,160 people, according to the last census in 2011 That is, for every square kilometer of the Athens 7462 residents have to! Capital of Greece - seventh most populous city in Europe.
Thus Athens in no inferior to any resort town of Greece. In the city - many beautiful beaches, where you can get to on an ordinary city tram. Coast of the Saronic Gulf, where are the neighborhoods of southern Athens area, is a place of recreation for residents and for visitors.
Transport
The international airport of Athens "El. Venizelos ", located in the capital's suburb of Spata and built for the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, is one of the best, most convenient, safe and organized airports in Europe and the world.
From the main train station of Athens - Station "Larissis" - branches diverge to Peloponnese (south of the country) and to Northern Greece and the island of Euboea, which can be reached by land, the magnificent bridge connecting it to the mainland, and to the north of the village Peloponnese. By train you can get to Athens and from many European capitals.
Athens has a wide network of public transport and taxis. Built for the Olympic Games in Athens metro, suburban train (Proastiakos) and tram line, unclog the streets and avenues of the city from private transport: since the Greeks - his passion for cars and motorcycles, and are usually very difficult to part with the wheel, even going over short distances .
Athens metro - the most convenient means of transportation. At the moment, there are two lines that intersect with the third line - the line of the old city train, the train that runs from the north of Athens (Kifissia) to the port of Piraeus.
what to see
Probably start exploring Athens followed with its center, Syntagma Square, which received its name from the uprising September 3, 1843 g, when the army and the people demanded from King Otto of Greece to give the Greeks Constitution ("Syntagma" in Greek means "constitution").
Syntagma Square is the Greek Parliament, once a royal palace, which is guarded by the Greek National Guard - Evzones in national costume, standing on guard in front of the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and near the parliament building stretches Royal (now National) Park, founded the first Greek Queen Amalia.
But, despite the fact that the distance reference in Greece is from the Syntagma Square, the zero point of the central area of the capital is still considered to Omonia Square, that is the agreement, from which, as from the Place de la Concorde, the same agreement, in Paris, radiate Athenian "Champs Elysees" - the central artery of the city - street. Patision (or st. 28th October), st. Third day of September, ul. St. Constantine, st. Piraeus (Piraeus), st. Athena (goddess), st. Step (stadium), st. Panepistimiou (or E. Venizelos).
The main shopping street of the center of Athens is considered to Ermou Street, that is Hermes, the god of trade. This pedestrian street for some time now descends from the most Syntagma Square to Monastiraki Square: Monastiraki - the world-famous "bazaar" Athens with endless souvenir shops and shopping, where you can buy everything, confirming the phrase Anton Chekhov: "Greece has everything."
Bird's-eye view (and from the top of the Acropolis rock) Athens seem treeless city, solid stone. But this impression is still misleading, though much ruined building boom face of the city, from which the future king of Greece, and in 1832 another young Bavarian prince Otto, first came to the Attic land, was delighted. But then Athens was still a village, but the vast Attic sky shone incredible blue and the air was so clear and fragrant that his thirsty.
In addition to the Athens National Park area of 15 hectares, broken wife of Otto Amalie, the capital can pohvastatsyaDiomidovym garden in Haidari, an area of 150 hectares, with its one of the richest collections in the world of flowers and plants from all over the world, which is protected by the state, and which directly concerned the University of Athens.
Next to the National Park, being formally its continuation, Zappion Park is located in an area of 12 hectares, also has quite a decent collection of plants, as well as a wonderful fountain with light - the pride of the garden and the capital.
Important for the people of Athens and the old park Champs de Mars (Pedio the Areos) with old trees, flower beds, lakes and ponds, with a giant statue of the goddess Athena and two churches - Holy Taxiarch (Archangels) and St. Haralambos.
In the north of the capital is divided magnificent garden Galati, which hosts a variety of cultural events and festivals, and is located next to the Olympic Centre Galati.
In addition to gardens in Athens remains of the former luxury - groves planted kings and queens, starting with Queen Olga, Russian Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna, and ending with her sister, daughters and granddaughters.
What is certainly worth a visit in Athens:
• Archaeological Museum of Ceramics
• Byzantine & Christian Museum (ul. Vasilissis Sofias 22, that is, the Reina Sofia)
• National Archaeological Museum (ul. Tositsa 1)
• New Acropolis Museum (ul. Makrygianni, Athens 2-4)
• Benaki Museum (ul. Kumbare 1)
• Museum of jewelry Ilya Lalaounis (st. Kallisperi and st. Kariatidon 4A)
• Athens Numismatic Museum, located in a house built for his family's famous German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (st. Panepistimiou 12)
• The Museum of the Ancient Agora (Market)
• Russian Holy Trinity Church on the street. Filellinon starting from Syntagma Square
• Cathedral Street. Mitropoleos
For those who must daily "absorb" one museum exhibition, offer more:
• The State Historical Museum
• Museum of epigraphy
• Theatre Museum
• Museum of Islamic Art
• The Children's Museum
• Military Museum
Mythology and History
According to the mythological version, the city of Athens is the result of a dispute between two powerful gods of Olympus - the daughter of Zeus, goddess of wisdom Athena, the god of the seas and uncle goddess, Poseidon, for influence over the city, and for the right to give it its name.
Poseidon struck his trident into the rock, mined for the residents of precious water (though salty), and Athena planted an olive tree than the spot struck onlookers watching the competition. Athena won the bet, gave the city its name and became his patroness and protector. (Speaking of water: tap water in Athens not only drinking, but she is also the best among European capitals quality).
The history of Athens is lost in centuries. The great philosopher Plato said that the Egyptian priests told his predecessor, the Athenian sage and legislator Solon, that, according to their Egyptian archives, flourishing city with the name of Athens there was nearly 10,000 years ago.
For lack of evidence supporting this hypothesis, it is believed that the first inhabitants of the region were the Pelasgians. The first king of Athens was Kekrop, who lived in a 3 - 2 millennium BC For Pelasges Attica obzhili Ionians. The myth of the prince Theseus who killed the Minotaur in Crete in the famous Labyrinth, and out of which he helped Ariadne's thread, said that once obeyed Athens Crete.
In the Trojan War Athens sided with the Achaeans, and the king of Sparta, Menelaus, whose Trojan Prince Paris stole Helen the Beautiful.
But this prosperity reached Athens during the classical period of its history, between 500 and 300 years BC, called the "Golden Age" or "Age of Pericles" after standing at the head of the Athenian republic strategist. It was then built magnificent buildings of Athens, including the Acropolis and the Parthenon headed. It was then that the art of Greece, philosophy, science, theater reached its zenith. The study of ancient Greek classics and a half thousand years later, lead to the flourishing of the Renaissance, the "Golden Age" of Western culture already.
At 86 grams, after a long siege, Athens was captured and looted Roman strategist Lucius Cornelius Sulla. However, after the capture of Athens by the Romans and up to 3 in BC they remained an important city until they were plundered by Germanic tribes. But the city has again risen from the ashes like a phoenix, and stayed "afloat" three hundred years: the final downfall of the once brilliant Athens happens when 529 g of the Decree of the Emperor Justinian will be closed all the famous philosophical schools. Gradually the center of progress, science, arts and commerce moves to the north of the country and in Constantinople.
Athens remained the possession of the Franks until 1458 g, when Duchy of Athens was conquered by the Turks. In the 17th century, when the Venetians tried to recapture Athens from the Turks, the Venetian shell hit the powder magazine, is located in the Parthenon, with disastrous consequences for the latter.
By the day of the liberation of the city from the Turks Athens, in fact, turned into a village.
Capital of the young and independent Greece Athens began in 1833, when King Otto of Greece moved it here from Nafplio. In 1834 the city began to be built up, and grow prettier. In 1862 the Greeks drove the Bavarians, and on the Greek throne sat a Danish Prince George, who became King George the First, the founder of the only Greek royal dynasty Glücksburg. Glücksburg dynasty once again intertwined with the Romanov dynasty, when the granddaughter of Alexander II, the daughter of Grand Duke Constantine, Olga, became Queen of the Hellenes (wife of George the First). The Last King Constantine II, was deposed by referendum in 1974
Since then a lot has happened. Athens experienced two Balkan Wars, World War I, the Asia Minor catastrophe, when Greece invaded the Greek refugees from Asia Minor coast of Turkey, the dictatorship of Pangalos, Metaxas and Papadopoulos, World War II, when, during the occupation of hunger in the capital of thousands of Athenians died, the Civil War, when on the streets of the capital of the Greeks fought with the Greeks, the dictatorship of the colonels, events Polytechnic 1973, a student uprising marked the end of the power of dictators.
All the latest Greek history was written mainly in Athens, which in August 2004 became the capital of the ordinary, XXVIII Olympic Games and the city shook, revived, renewed.
Today Athens - a metropolis, home to a third of the population. City of east and west, the city of modern culture and art. City - one of the capitals of the European Union.
Meal
Athens kitchen, as such, does not exist. Athens powered by the laws of the Mediterranean diet, and do not neglect any kitchen, even without having a single point of contact with the eating habits of the Greeks.
They are accompanied by the old Athenian dishes include roast beef and sweet Athenian jellied fish in the Athens, as well as potato salad with mayonnaise Athens: Athens mayonnaise tasted and appreciated much earlier than the rest of the country, perhaps because it was the residence of the Athens of the Western powers, Western diplomats and set the tone (Bonton, good tone) in Athenian society. We should not forget that the Thessaloniki out from under Turkish influence only in 1912!
Entertainment
Nightlife Athens is famous all over the world, change the day in the Greek capital - a purely physical concept, has no relation to the rhythm of life in the city, which remains a mad day and night.
Most metropolitan bouzouki is located in the seaside avenue and in coastal areas; their scenes are the best singers of Greek music. If you come here hours to 9 pm, it may seem that the music scene, bars and restaurants are empty. Just nightlife starts after 11:00 How say the Greeks themselves, "at 10 pm they are just starting to shave."
Year period - the period of the Greek Festival, when the capital of Greece attracts the best theaters, artists, opera singers and dancers from around the world. Center of Athens Festival Theatre of Herod Atticus is under the Acropolis.
What to bring
Greek Greek clothing and shoes are among the best in Europe, so the trip to the countless shops Ermou will not be superfluous. Those interested can also visit the fur factories and shops on the street Mitropoleos, Ermou parallel.
As for souvenirs, we recommend a walk around the block to Monastiraki and Plaka, the main street - street Adriana (Hadrian), replete with jewelry shops with jewelry and a simple and cheap silver and gold jewelry: gold and silver Greek extremely traded in Europe.
Wonderful Greek leather and fur, Greek woven carpets, ceramics and bronze and marble statues.
For those looking for something special, we suggest to visit the Benaki Museum boutique that sells copies of Byzantine silver - utensils, ornaments, Byzantine ceramics.
As a souvenir you can bring cosmetics, based on - olive oil or mastiha of Chios.
Athens - an era in the history not only of European history, but also the world of culture. Athens - a city of philosophers and commanders, sculptors and architects. It is a modern metropolis, diverse and colorful. Athens - capital of Greece!
