Athens Trip Overview
You will be met at the lobby of your hotel or the port of Piraeus by your licensed tour guide and you will board your private vehicle. Driving to the center of Athens your officially licensed tour guide will comment on the city’s historical elements and enjoy an on board guided city tour of Athens, during which you will see many monuments like the temple of Zeus,the Panathenaic stadium, the Zappion Mansion, the Parliament house, the Sydagma square and the Athenian Trilogy.
Then you will visit the New Acropolis Museum, characterized as one of the best museums in the world. Afterwards you will hike up and climb the Acropolis Hill, where you will reach the top and see the breathtaking Parthenon and the Erechtheion temple.
Plaka is one of the most famous districts of central Athens and one of the few parts of the city which remain untouched, full of neoclassical buildings, as well as several gardens, terraces and squares.
Finally you will be returned back to your hotel or Piraeus port.
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Duration: 6 hours
Starts: Athens, Greece
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Athens, Attica, Greece
You will be met at the lobby of your hotel or the port of Piraeus by your licensed tour guide and you will board your private vehicle. Driving to the center of Athens your officially licensed tour guide will comment on the city’s historical elements and enjoy an on board guided city tour of Athens, during which you will see many monuments like the temple of Zeus,the Panathenaic stadium, the Zappion Mansion, the Parliament house, the Sydagma square and the Athenian Trilogy.
Then you will visit the New Acropolis Museum, characterized as one of the best museums in the world. Afterwards you will hike up and climb the Acropolis Hill, where you will reach the top and see the breathtaking Parthenon and the Erechtheion temple.
Plaka is one of the most famous districts of central Athens and one of the few parts of the city which remain untouched, full of neoclassical buildings, as well as several gardens, terraces and squares.
Finally you will be returned back to your hotel or Piraeus port.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Acropolis, Via Dionysiou Areopagitou Str., Athens 105 58 Greece
Climbing up you will see and hear explanations about the Filopappos hill, the Herodium odeon, the Dionysius theatre, the Pnyx hill – birthplace of Democracy and the Areopagus hill. Stopping before the Propylaea, you will have an excellent view of the temple of Wingless Nike and the Ancient Agora, where Socrates, Plato and Aristotle introduced great philosophical schools. Walking through the Propylaea you will reach the top and you will see the breathtaking Parthenon and the Erechtheion temple opposite it, where the Karyatides stood instead of columns to support the roof.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou 15, Athens 117 42 Greece
The New Acropolis Museum is characterized as one of the best museums in the world and there you will see parts of the excavations of the ancient city through its glass floor, an amazing exhibition of “Kores” and “Kouroi” statues, the Karyatides e.t.c. As you will be ascending the different levels of the museum, you will reach the top floor, all glass, where admiring the remaining pediments and frieze of the Parthenon, you will also have an excellent view of the Parthenon itself. This is the next best view of the Parthenon, if any of you for any reason would prefer to not climb up the Acropolis hill.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Stop At: Plaka, Athens 10556 Greece
Plaka is one of the most famous districts of central Athens and one of the few parts of the city which remain untouched, full of neoclassical buildings where people still reside, as well as several gardens, terraces and squares where small traditional restaurants are serving their specialties.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
Stop At: Athens, Athens, Attica
Enjoy an on board city tour of Athens and be impressed by the view of the massive remaining marble corinthian columns of the temple of Zeus which still stand in the triangle between the Acropolis, the Panathenaic stadium and the Zappion Mansion which in 1896 used to be an Olympic Commitee building. If you would like to stop and get off for a closer visit of either the temple of Olympic Zeus or the Zappion Mansion, you could ask your guide to do so. Next comes the Panathenaic marble stadium of the 1896 Olympics where you can stop for photos. The sightseeing will proceed passing the Parliament house, the Sydagma square, the Athenian Trilogy consisted by the Academy, the Library and the University buildings, the semi-byzantine building of the first eye clinic building in Europe and the church of St. Dionysios which is the Metropolis of the Catholic church in Athens. The drive will proceed through the Stadiou Avenue and the other side of Sydagma square and the Arch of Hadrian.
Duration: 40 minutes
