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Overoll Croissanterie was born when three young pastry chefs wanted to share their desire for classic french croissants with all the croissant lovers. The inspiration around the product and the whole style of the space came from Australia. When entering Overoll or even watching from the street, you can see the window case filled with croissants. If you are even a little curious, you can’t resist the temptation to enter and see what’s happening inside! When it comes to product quality, the best ingredients are used, starting from the basics, like butter and flour, to the fruits and vegetables. The same goes for coffee products of course and the tea selection offered at the store, which is a high quality French brand.

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400 m / PANEPISTIMIO METRO LINE 2

MONUMENT TO THE FRENCH PHILHELLENES / MESSOLONGHI

It is a marble construction consisting of two parts on the basis of which is written in French and Greek: “In memory of the French Philhellenes”. It is a creation of George Megoulas. The most famous and most visited place in Messolonghi attracts dozens of tourists every year and is the trademark of the city that went down in history through the revolution of 1821. It is a unique, for Greece, park with monuments to famous and anonymous heroes who fell in the Struggle for Freedom.

SCULPTURES IN MEMORY OF THE PHILEHELLENES

The honor of the heroes is to remain in the collective memory. And for this reason, statues, busts and monuments are a way for each city to keep the imprint of each hero in squares, parks and streets. The Philhellenes who helped so much in the success of the Greek Revolution have been honored and continue to be honored by laying wreaths at memorial sites.

STATUE OF WILLIAM GLADSTONE / UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

William Gladstone’s Adrian is the work of George Vitalis and is located outside the University of Athens. The Greek government sent George Vitalis to England to study the characteristics of Gladstone’s physiognomy and to complete his studies. A bust of Pentelic marble was also sent to the English politician himself. Gladstone is depicted standing, in the position of an orator. He has his right hand extended, while his left hand holds the scroll with the Treaty of Berlin, and below, next to his left foot, are two books, a reference to his special love for Homeric poems. The artist captures him the moment he talks about the laws of Greece, dressed in a suit of his time, combining realistic elements and idealistic classicist types.

EDWARD EVERETT AND SAMUEL GRINDLEY HOWE / BUSTS IN TRIPOLI

In the center of Tripoli, in the Peloponnese, going from the exit to the center, on the left, and in front of the wagon, is the bust of Edward Everett and on the right, in the park of the Cultural Center, the bust of Samuel Grindley Howe. Edward Everett was born in 1794 and served in various political positions during his lifetime. He was the first Professor of Greek at Harvard University. He had met Adamantios Korais in 1817 in Paris. Two years later he visited Greece, making a trip that deeply affected him for the rest of his life. In May 1821, shortly after the outbreak of the Revolution, the President of the Messinian Senate, Petrobeis Mavromichalis, addressed a letter to the citizens of America asking for their support and help. This letter arrived in July 1821, through Adamantios Korais, to Edward Everett, requesting to be published. Everett took strong action in favor of the Greek cause, constantly writing articles, asking for the support of the Americans in the Greek struggle. He paralleled the struggle of the Greeks with that of his fellow citizens during the American Revolution. Everett’s writings decisively influenced and sensitized the public, but also many public officials, who raised the issue of American intervention in favor of Greece in the US Congress. Samuel Grindley Howe was the “Lafayette” of the Greek revolution, as he was called. He was born in November 1801 in Boston. He studied medicine at Harvard University. In 1824 he declared that he would go to the revolution in Greece and try to amuse the concern of his family, arguing that there, during the war, he would have more opportunities to practice and improve his surgical skills! He arrived in Greece in 1825 and served in the Greek army, first as a volunteer soldier and then as a doctor-surgeon. He participated in several battles and gained the respect of all. In 1827, he returned to the United States to raise supplies and money for the Greek cause. He managed to raise the impressive, for the time, amount of 60,000 dollars and traveled again to Greece in 1828 to distribute the aid himself. Howe returned to Greece in 1867, with the outbreak of the Cretan Revolution.

MONUMENT OF THE PHILEHELLENES / NAFPLIO

The monument consists of a wooden arch, donated by the French philhellene officer Augustus Hilarion Toure, which adorns the inner side of the entrance of a church and dates from 1841. The arch, which became known as the “Toure arch”, is made of pine wood and refers to in an ancient Greek temple. The names of foreign Philhellenes and the place where they fell are inscribed in white letters. Among the names are the Poles who were killed in the Battle of Peta and on the islands of Evia and Poros. The designer of the monument was the Bavarian sculptor Christian Seigel.

THE GREEK BOY

By Victor Hugo «Les Orientales»

«Les Οrientales» is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, inspired by the Greek Revolution. They were published in January 1829.

All is a ruin where rage knew no bounds: Chio is levelled, and loathed by the hounds, For shivered yest’reen was her lance; Sulphurous vapors envenom the place Where her true beauties of Beauty’s true race Were lately linked close in the dance.

Dark is the desert, with one single soul; Cerulean eyes! whence the burning tears roll In anguish of uttermost shame, Under the shadow of one shrub of May, Splashed still with ruddy drops, bent in decay Where fiercely the hand of Lust came.

“Soft and sweet urchin, still red with the lash Of rein and of scabbard of wild Kuzzilbash, What lack you for changing your sob — If not unto laughter beseeming a child — To utterance milder, though they have defiled The graves which they shrank not to rob?

“Would’st thou a trinket, a flower, or scarf, Would’st thou have silver? I’m ready with half These sequins a-shine in the sun! Still more have I money — if you’ll but speak!” He spoke: and furious the cry of the Greek, “Oh, give me your dagger and gun!”