Greek actress Mary Mina lit the Olympic flame on Tuesday in Olympia, Greece. The flame will then begin a 5,000 km journey across Greece over 11 days, from the island of Corfu, via Kastellorizo, in the south-east of the country. She will also climb the Acropolis rock to spend a night near the Parthenon.
The flame will then be transmitted to the French organizers on April 26 in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens where the first Olympic Games of the modern era were played in 1896.