Athens is uncomfortably hot but the tourists still arrived at the Acropolis in droves.
Some were sent to hospital as a precaution.
Like many other major cities in southern Europe, Athens takes climate change and rising temperatures seriously. "We have to deal with that, and secure the lives of our citizens. We are going to have fires, we are going to have floods... and we have to deal with what is happening.
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