Atlantis City

The fascinating story of Atlantis, the city that “sunk into the sea” goes back to 355 B.C., when Greek philosopher Plato wrote about it in his book Timaeus. The book is written in dialogues where there is a character named Kritias who tells the story of Atlantis, a story that had been in his family for generations. According to Plato’s writings, Atlantis was an advanced civilization located to the west of the “Pillars of Hercules” (what is today the Straight of Gibraltar) on an island in the Atlantic Ocean; a sophisticated and powerful city which was an awesome sight of architecture and engineering and a city that was built of a serious of concentric walls and canals; in its centre as it is described in the book, there was a hill, and on its top, a temple to Poseidon, the God of the sea. The city of Atlantis became corrupt and greedy (9000 years before Plato’s time) so the Gods decided to punish them by shaking their land with a violent earthquake which brought giant waves that rolled over the shores making the island sink into the sea. So, is Atlantis a made up story by Plato, or it is really a fact? That is something that we probably will never know, but what we know for sure is that this will always be a captivating and fascinating story that will continue leading to make amazing movies and books.