Athens Trip Overview
This tour is curated for people who are very well acquainted with the Greek antiquity and want to explore other places apart the bespoke sites, which are reach in value like the Ancient cemetery of Athens, Kerameikos.
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Duration: 4 hours
Starts: Athens, Greece
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Athens, Attica, Greece
This tour is curated for people who are very well acquainted with the Greek antiquity and want to explore other places apart the bespoke sites, which are reach in value like the Ancient cemetery of Athens, Kerameikos.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Kerameikos Cemetery, Ermou 148, Athens 105 53 Greece
Arrive at the charming district of Thisseio and follow the pedestrian way towards the archaeological site of Kerameikos. This unique historical site that large crowds do not often visit served as the ancient cemetery of Athens. While walking around the site you can take a look at the ruins of the ancient defense wall that marked the city’s boundaries. Discover the two famous entrance gates and the place where the Athenian citizens prepared for the festivities of the grand Panathenaic Procession. Approach the terrain where Pericles, an eminent political official, delivered his Funeral Oration to honor the Athenian soldiers who died bravely after the first year of the notorious Peloponnesian War. Stroll around the tombs of prestigious Athenian personalities and let their exceptional grave signs catch your eye. Marble artistic reliefs and high-quality pottery can also be admired in the local museum’s collection, for a complete picture of the site’s history.
Duration: 1 hour
Stop At: National Archaeological Museum, Patision 44, Athens 106 82 Greece
Continue your tour by driving towards the National Archaeological Museum. Founded in the 19th-century, its main purpose was to house and protect Greek and Roman artifacts of highest value. Its collection is undoubtedly the richest and largest one in Greece, including exceptional pottery of all Greek civilizations, marble statues, funerary sculpture from Kerameikos, golden death masks and bronze swords of the Mycenaean era, prehistoric wall-paintings and jewelry, among many other remarkable artifacts.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
