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2. The town was destroyed by the earthquake in 1953 but almost all buildings were restored, some of them trying to keep the original outlooks. Only a few churches survived the earthquakes and today they can be visited as museums. On the top of hill above the town, the ruins of an old Venetian castle can be seen, with panoramic view to the town and the sea. Majoritarea cldirilor din centrul vechi al oraului Zakynthos, capitala insulei. au fost distruse n timpul cutremurului devastator din 1953, n urma cruia au rmas n picioare foarte puine cldiri. Noile construcii ridicate au pstrat arhitectura tradiionala a insulelor Ioniene i creeaz o atmosfera pitoreasc i elegant. Oraul Zakynthos are note de nostalgie i romantism i o panoram deosebit asupra golfului n care se afl.The national poet Dionysios Solomos (1798-1857) 3. Text and pictures: InternetCopyright: All t he images belong to their authorsArangement: Sanda Foioreanuwww.slideshare.net/michaelasandaSound:Maria Farantouri - Mikis Theodorakis - Marina.Mikis Theodorakis - Sirtaki 4. MARINA: A poem by Odysseas Elytis Music: Mikis Theodorakis- Give me some basil, mint and vervainTo smell until I nearly burst,And kissing you with all their perfumeWhat am I to remember first?Odysseas Elytis (November 2, 1911 A golden fountain with the white doves March 18, 1996) wasA shining sword of archangel,regarded as a majorA garden underneath the stardustOr darkness of the deepest well exponent of romanticmodernism in GreeceThat night when crossing the horizonand the world. In 1979I saw you to the other sideOf heaven and beheld you rising, the Nobel Prize inA sister of the morning light... Literature was bestowed on him.Marina, green star I go under,Marina, first of morning rays,Marina, my wild dove of wonderAnd lily of the summer days.Translated into English by Pavel Kharitonov