Athens Greece compare with Cuenca Ecuador

Athens is one of the oldest cities in the world, it’s history spans for more than 3000 years it is the birth place of modern democracy as we know today, it’s located at the southern part of Greece next to the Mediterranean sea, here were born many of the most important and most recognizes philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, etc. another thing that makes Athens very important is that the Greeks invented de Olympics games in the past, and they were the host city for the modern Olympics games in 1896 and in 2004, the city has been conquered many times during the history, but is in the last century that become an important center of science, history, and economics.
Compare with Cuenca, we know that both cities have many similarities and also big differences, one of the similarities is that Athens is surrounded by mountains, and Cuenca is pretty much the same, that’s why Athens can’t grow as a city because of the mountains and soon Cuenca will have the same problem, because there will be no place to expand the city, another thing that both cities share in common is the air pollution it’s because of the automate park, there are to many vehicles around at the same time making very difficult the flow of traffic, as the cities have similarities they do have differences, let’s say that Athens is next to the ocean, and the weather is most of the year really hot, but Cuenca is up in the mountains then for it’s weather is cold, with a rainy season and a summer season, of course Athens is 8 times bigger than Cuenca and it’s more populated, with many restaurants, hotel, theaters and resorts, it’s economical and political power is a way higher than Cuenca, perhaps the most common between the two is it’s name Athens capital of Greece and Cuenca Athens of Ecuador.
I hope this little information you find very helpful to see a few differences and similarities between these to amazing cities.