The Olympic torch was lit today in Greece and is already on its way to Paris, where the 2024 Olympic Games will take place this summer. This Tuesday, in the ruins of ancient Olympia, the traditional ceremony in which it was invoked took place. to the god Apollo and was presented to the first bearer of the Olympic flame.
During the ceremony, which has been held at this historic site before each edition of the Winter and Summer Olympic Games since 1936, actress Meri Miná, in her role as the High Priestess of Olympia, lit the Olympic torch heading to Apollo, surrounded by other priestesses and vestal virgins.
The traditional ceremony proposes a connection between the Games of Antiquity, born in Olympia in the year 776 BC, and the Games of Modernity.
