Greece Says Leave Your High Heels At Home
May 22, 2009 at 11:51 AM | 2 Comments
If you’ve decided that this is the summer you’re going to party in Greece, you’d better check your packing list and take out your high heels.
Officials in Greece are trying to get stiletto heels banned at important archaeological sites because these evil heels are damaging the ancient stuff. To quote Eleni Korka, a director taking care of such ancient sites:
Female visitors must wear shoes that do not wound the monuments. These monuments have a skin that suffers and people must realise that.
Too many tourists is a bit of a problem at many of the ancient sites in Greece – a few years ago they did a big clean-up of the Odeon of Herodes Atticus theater in Athens and removed 59 pounds of chewing gum stuck under the seats in the process. For some reason they haven’t thought of banning chewing gum a la Singapore, but the anti-stiletto movement is growing strong.
