As is traditional, the Torch will be lit in a special ceremony at the historic home of the Ancient Games in the Temple of Hera in the Greek town.

After a week travelling around Greece, it is due to be handed over to Rio 2016 organisers with a special ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the stadium used at the first Modern Olympic Games in 1896.

It will then travel straight to Brazil before officially beginning its journey in the capital Brasilia, lasting 95 days before the Olympic Cauldron is lit at the Opening Ceremony of the Games in the Maracanã Stadium, on August 5.

A total of 12,000 bearers are set to participate in a journey visiting 83 cities including the 26 state capitals.

It is estimated that the Torch's journey will embrace 90 per cent of the population, with the full itinerary expected to be unveiled in January.

It comes after the Torch was showcased to the Brazilian public in the Largo da Carioca, giving them the opportunity to “get to know” it personally in a sneak preview of what will be experienced next year.

This included selfies and hundreds of people recording the Torch, which was revealed last month, as part of celebrations marking one-year-to-go until the Games begin.

Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos is among officials currently here to mark these celebrations, speaking at a ceremony alongside Rio 2016 President Nuzman and International Olympic Committee head Thomas Bach.

As well as a texture consisting of triangles running the length of its body, alluding to the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect, one of its main innovations is the movement of these segments, which open up and expand vertically when the Olympic Flame is passed from one torchbearer to another.

Upon expanding, the segments reveal the elements that add the Brazilian flavour: diversity, contagious energy and exuberant nature, with the soil, the sea, the mountains, the sky and the sun represented in the colours of the Brazilian flag, which are also present in the "visual identity" of Rio 2016, it is claimed.

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