October 14, 2019

October 14, 2019

Fly to Ancient Olympia for the Olympic flame lighting ceremony

The 2020 Summer Olympics are coming and with them, the Olympic flame lighting ceremony on March 12 2020 in Ancient Olympia, Greece. Eleven women, representing the Vestal Virgins, perform a celebration at the Temple of Hera in which the first torch of the Olympic Torch Relay is kindled by the light of the Sun, its rays concentrated by a parabolic mirror. The flame then will start its route to Japan, where it will start its course March 26 from Naraha to Minamisoma and finally make its way into the Olympic Stadium of Tokyo for the 2020 Summer Olympics opening ceremony […]