Eleusis

Eleusis is a town and municipality in West Attica, Greece. It is situated about 18 kilometres northwest from the centre of Athens. It is placed in the Thriasian Plain, on the northernmost stop of the Saronic Gulf. North of Eleusis are Mandra and Magoula, at the same time as Aspropyrgos is to the northeast. Eleusis is the seat of management of West Attica local unit. It is the website online of the Eleusinian Mysteries and the birthplace of Aeschylus. Today, Eleusis is a primary industrial centre, with the largest oil refinery in Greece as well as the home of the Aeschylia Festival, the longest-lived arts occasion in the Attica Region. Eleusis turned into a deme of historical Attica, belonging to the phyle Hippothoontis.

It owed its celeb to its being the leader seat of the worship of Demeter and Persephone, and to the mysteries celebrated in honour of these goddesses, which were called the Eleusinia, and continued to be appeared as the maximum sacred of all the Grecian mysteries down to the fall of paganism. Established in 1975 the Aeschylia Festival in Eleusis in Western Attica is the presently the longest standing cultural occasion organized by means of an Attica Municipality. It is annually held at "Palaio Elaiourgeio" a former cleaning soap manufacturing facility by way of the seafront now converted to faction as an open theatre.