Olympic spirit: The heritage of a better humanity

Since 1829 the French and German governments had been systematically excavating to discover the legendary monuments of Olympia, and in 1881, the ruins of the ancient sanctuary city, which had been the ancestral cradle of athletics and the homeland of the Olympic games, were finally completely unearthed.

Now, after fifteen centuries wrapped in a silent mantle of solitude and oblivion, the old stones of its wide streets and avenues, of its temples, its fountains and its altars, of the porticoes and columns that supported its majestic buildings, of its reliefs with legendary scenes and their statues of young heroes with bodies of bronze and the gaze of eternity, they emerged again from the sands of time to rise upright and defiant in the light of day, as a perennial reminder of a dream of centuries, of a living legend. , of a timeless spirit… the Olympic Ideal.