Walk the Long Walls
The project Walk the Long Walls is an audiovisual web app (audio tour), bilingual (Greek-English), free-of-charge and compatible with all modern devices. The application offers a fascinating archaeological and industrial tour at 23 points of interest. The selected POIs include visible but also inconspicuous archaeological remains of the ancient city along the route of the Long Walls as well as historical buildings.
Each POI includes a narrative with information about the respective rescue excavation or industrial building, pictorial and cartographic material and historical information. By making the most of augmented reality technology (AR), representations with three-dimensional visualization are included in the project.
The digital project Walk the Long Walls is addressed to residents and visitors of the area, whether initiated or not with its history and archaeology, as well as teachers and students of all education levels. It provides a digital tool for experiential learning and exploration, aiming to raise public awareness regarding the historical past embedded within the modern urban fabric. At the same time, it highlights the zone of the Long Walls as a complex urban landscape in which ancient remains, recent industrial traces, and contemporary urban structures coexist and interact. This approach engages with recent studies that examine the zone of the Long Walls as a historical, urban, and social palimpsest, as well as the diachronic transformation of the landscape (see Kouzoupi 2022; Kouzoupi et al. 2025).
The project was implemented with the generous support of the John S. Latsis Public Benefit Foundation, the J. F. Costopoulos Foundation and the George Vergottis Memorial Fund.
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