~ Evzone ~ by virginiese

Photography • Historical • posted on Mar 25, 2018

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Hello Rendosians ! Looking into my folders on my hard drive, I've found out this nice picture from my vacation in Greece. The photography represents an evzone (εύζωνος) : he guards the tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the greek parliament on Syntagma Square (Athens). He belongs to the elite of light infantry and wears a doulama. The doulama's color is ochre in summer and blue in winter. I wanted to know more about this uniform and learned that the shoes are very heavy (3 kilos for the pair) and are handmade : a stunning work ! The pompom is decorative nowadays but used to hide a blade that could be used for self-defense when the guard had no other weapons. Evzone means "well-girt" Want to know more about evzones? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evzones (in english) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evzones (in french) Have a great day and enjoy your Sunday ! Thanks for all your kind comments on my previous picture ! Hugs ! Virginie

Comments (11)

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Faemike55

10:09AM | Sun, 25 March 2018

fantastic information and wonderful photo

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Richardphotos

10:13AM | Sun, 25 March 2018

different cultures, different customs. makes for photo ops. great capture

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MagikUnicorn

10:25AM | Sun, 25 March 2018

Beau cliché

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Kordouane

11:11AM | Sun, 25 March 2018

Beautiful capture !!

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rbowen

2:49PM | Sun, 25 March 2018

Great capture!

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gaius

3:22AM | Mon, 26 March 2018

Et pas question de les moderniser ! pas plus que les horse guards de Londres ou autres militaires aux habits qui ressortissent, de nos jours, plus au folklore qu'à une utilité. En tout cas, c'est un très bon cliché qui me ramène agréablement aux temps où je devais aller à Athènes pour superviser notre "succursale"...

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anitalee

5:33PM | Mon, 26 March 2018

Nice shot

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UteBigSmile

3:59AM | Thu, 29 March 2018

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junge1

6:50PM | Sun, 01 April 2018

Wow great picture Virginie and interesting information, 3 kg for the pair of shoes? I hope they don't have to march in them!

atlas7

9:40PM | Fri, 06 April 2018

Très belle photo amusante en même temps (Enfin de mon point de vue) ! :)

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KarmaSong

5:08AM | Sun, 15 April 2018

De retour sur le site, je me réjouis de voir que tu n'as pas chômé, même si tu n'es pas encore en vacances ! C'est une très belle photo, comme d'habitude, au cadrage parfait, avec une lumière et des contrastes bien maîtrisés, bravo l'artiste! En plus, tu enfonces le couteau dans la plaie pour me rappeler que j'ai pratiquement ignoré toute ma vie que des pays comme l'Italie ou la Grèce se visitent bien avant d'aller voir du côté du grand nord de la planète !