International

Athens Uses Olympics to Fuel Civic Rebirth

By Sylvia Poggioli

Published July 28, 2004 at 9:00 PM PDT

This story was published more than 20 years ago.

Facebook
WhatsApp
Email

The Olympic Village area in Athens is nearly completed.

International

Sylvia Poggioli

Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's International Desk covering political, economic, and cultural news in Italy, the Vatican, Western Europe, and the Balkans. Poggioli's on-air reporting and analysis have encompassed the fall of communism in Eastern Europe, the turbulent civil war in the former Yugoslavia, and how immigration has transformed European societies.