The flame will then begin a journey of 5,000 km across Greece for 11 days, from the island of Corfu, in the Ionian Sea, to that of Santorini in the Cyclades, with its famous postcard setting, via Kastellorizo, in southeast of the country. She will also climb the Acropolis rock to spend a night near the Parthenon.
The flame will then be transmitted to the French organizers on April 26 in the Panathenaic stadium in Athens, the venue in which the first Olympic Games of the modern era were played in 1896. In Piraeus, the large port south of Athens, the Flamme will then board the three-masted Belem to disembark on May 8 in Marseille. The symbol of the Olympic Games will then cross all of France, passing through the Antilles and French Polynesia, to arrive in Paris on the day of the opening ceremony, July 26. The flame that burned throughout the Games in Antiquity represented the ideal of peace and unity between peoples.
