On April 6, 1896, the first modern Olympic games began in Athens, Greece with the opening ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium ...

The Baron de Berenger held an Olympic Festival at Chelsea Stadium in London in 1832 ... the IOC soon decided to aim for 1896, with Athens as the site. That idea, too, met with resistance ...

The Panathenaic Stadium became the first modern Olympic venue in the world, when it hosted the summer Games in 1896. The only stadium in the world to be completely made of marble, it can seat as ...

Once lit, 600 torchbearers carried the flame through 41 Greek towns to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. From Athens, the torch boarded the “Belem,” a three-masted ship that dates back to 1896, the ...