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A look at Atlanta’s Gateway of Dreams in honor of the city’s 1996 Summer Olympics

A September 2014 view of the Gateway of Dreams monument in Atlanta. (Photo by Todd DeFeo/The DeFeo Groupe)

ATLANTA — The Gateway of Dreams monument in Centennial Olympic Park was dedicated in 1996 and honors the father of the modern Olympic Games.

Pierre de Coubertin founded the modern Olympic Games with the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. Raymond Kaskey designed the monument, which features a statue of Coubertin, a step pyramid and the columns of Boaz and Jachin.

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