Shocking images from the Constitution: Tourists see a change of guard in the unknown soldier
Every Sunday at 11:00 am, the Change Ceremony of the Evzones Guard, who stand in front of the unknown soldier’s monument, is different from the rest of the day, resulting in a large crowd gathering to watch it.
The sunny day, as well as the fact that Athens is already flooded by tourists, was the reason that the Constitution gathered crowds.
The precision movements of the Evzones that perform the ritual with absolute synchronization. He magnified young and old in the Constitution with some of them gathered long before the spot.
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The change of guard
The monument of the unknown soldier is on the front of the wall that frames the Greek Parliament. At this point on the wall, the representation of a dead soldier is carved and is surrounded by excerpts from the famous Epitaph of Pericles.
The carved fresco is a work by Kostas Dimitriadis and represents a dead Greek soldier of the 5th century BC. who fell fighting in the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina.
The monument was unveiled on March 25, 1932, during the last governance of Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.
The monument is kept on a 24 -hour basis by two Evzones.
The honorary guard of the monument was undertaken by a special military speech of the guard of the President of the Republic, who was renamed a guard of the monument of the unknown soldier. In 1935, with the return of George II, Lochos was named in a royal guard, and since 1974 he was officially named Presidential Guard.
