Athina Trip Overview
Take this private walking tour in Athens and connect the dots between “yesterday” and “today” by letting your guide unveil unknown parts of history or mythology and significant details on iconic landmarks, historical buildings, beautiful old chapels and numerous monuments. Find hidden gems of unspoiled beauty and magnificent views.
-Avoid missing all the hot spots and gain insight you’d miss alone.
-You get to admire stunning Archeological Sites.
-100% personalized tour customized at your pace.
-Experience Ancient Greece’s greatest monument: the Acropolis
-Explore the new Acropolis Museum with a guide
-Soak up highlights of Athens, including the Changing of the Guards
Additional Info
Duration: 5 to 6 hours
Starts: Athina, Greece
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Historical & Heritage Tours
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What to Expect When Visiting Athina, Greece, Greece
Take this private walking tour in Athens and connect the dots between “yesterday” and “today” by letting your guide unveil unknown parts of history or mythology and significant details on iconic landmarks, historical buildings, beautiful old chapels and numerous monuments. Find hidden gems of unspoiled beauty and magnificent views.
-Avoid missing all the hot spots and gain insight you’d miss alone.
-You get to admire stunning Archeological Sites.
-100% personalized tour customized at your pace.
-Experience Ancient Greece’s greatest monument: the Acropolis
-Explore the new Acropolis Museum with a guide
-Soak up highlights of Athens, including the Changing of the Guards
Itinerary
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Stop At: Change of Guards, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Syntagma, Athens 10562 Greece
Changing of the Guard ceremonies take place at the Presidential Mansion and at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which is off Syntagma Square below the Hellenic Parliament.
The Changing the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in particular has become a popular tourist attraction in Athens.
Duration: 20 minutes
Pass By: National Garden, Leoforos Amalias 1, Athens 10557 Greece
The Royal Garden was commissioned by Queen Amalia in 1838 and completed by 1840. It was designed by the German agronomist Friedrich Schmidt who imported over 500 species of plants and a variety of animals including peacocks, ducks, and turtles. Unfortunately for many of the plants, the dry Mediterranean climate proved too harsh and they did not survive.
Pass By: Zappeion, Zappeion, Athens, Attica
In 1869, the Greek Parliament allocated 80,000 square metres (860,000 sq ft) of public land between the Palace Gardens and the ancient Temple of Olympian Zeus, and also passed a law on 30 November 1869, “for the building works of the Olympic Games”, as the Zappeion was the first building to be erected specifically for the revival of the Olympic Games in the modern world.
Stop At: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Leoforos Vasilissis Olgas Leoforos Amalias, Athens 105 57 Greece
The Temple of Olympian Zeus also known as the Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus, is a former colossal temple at the center of the Greek capital Athens. It was dedicated to “Olympian” Zeus, a name originating from his position as head of the Olympian gods. Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants, who envisaged building the greatest temple in the ancient world, but it was not completed until the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD, some 638 years after the project had begun. During the Roman period the temple, which included 104 colossal columns, was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Acropolis, Via Dionysiou Areopagitou Str., Athens 105 58 Greece
The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
Stop At: Theater of Dionysus, Mitseon 25, Athens 105 58 Greece
Dionysus was the god of wine and grape harvest. The theatre of Dionysus was the oldest to be founded in Athens; it was in this theatre that the unsurpassed works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes were performed for the first time.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Dionysiou Areopagitou Acropolis, Athens 10558 Greece
The Temple of Athena Nike was dedicated to the goddesses Athena and Nike. Nike was the goddess of victory in Greek mythology, and Athena was worshipped in this form, representative of being victorious in war. It is said that the cult statue of the goddess at the temple had no wings so that she would never leave Athens.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens 10558 Greece
The Erechtheion is an ancient Greek temple constructed on the Acropolis of Athens in order to house the ancient wooden cult statue of Athena and generally glorify the great city at the height of its power and influence.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Parthenon, Acropolis Top of Dionyssiou Areopagitou, Athens 105 58 Greece
The Parthenon is temple that dominates the hill of the Acropolis at Athens. It was built in the mid-5th century BCE and dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena Parthenos (“Athena the Virgin”). The temple is generally considered to be the culmination of the development of the Doric order, the simplest of the three Classical Greek architectural orders.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Acropolis Museum, Dionysiou Areopagitou 15, Athens 117 42 Greece
The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. It also lies over the ruins of part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
