Ilioupoli Trip Overview
Athens and Sounio Private Tour is the best option to combine sightseeing and pleasure as you have the opportunity to see all the attractions of Athens, when exploring the city in a few hours and enjoying the sea and the sun while driving to Cape Sounio. Visit the most important Greek city, the birth of the Democracy and the cradle of the western civilization and the Acropolis, the symbol of the Golden Age of Athens. Enjoy the drive along the Athenian Riviera and watch the beautiful sunset from the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio.
Enjoy the exclusivity and flexibility of a private tour with the assistance of your English speaking driver.
Let us be your hosts in our beautiful city and explore Athens and Corinth at your own pace.
Additional Info
Duration: 9 hours
Starts: Ilioupoli, Greece
Trip Category: Day Trips & Excursions >> Day Trips
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Athens and Sounio Private Tour is the best option to combine sightseeing and pleasure as you have the opportunity to see all the attractions of Athens, when exploring the city in a few hours and enjoying the sea and the sun while driving to Cape Sounio. Visit the most important Greek city, the birth of the Democracy and the cradle of the western civilization and the Acropolis, the symbol of the Golden Age of Athens. Enjoy the drive along the Athenian Riviera and watch the beautiful sunset from the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio.
Enjoy the exclusivity and flexibility of a private tour with the assistance of your English speaking driver.
Let us be your hosts in our beautiful city and explore Athens and Corinth at your own pace.
Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product
Stop At: Acropolis, Via Dionysiou Areopagitou Str., Athens 105 58 Greece
This tour usually starts with the visit of the Acropolis hill, the symbol of the Golden Age of Athens.
You will admire the imposing architecture and the perfection of the construction of the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the Propylaia, the temple of wingless Victory, the Theatre of Dionysus and the Odeon of Herodes Atticus.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Panathenaic Stadium, Vassileos Konstantinou Avenue opposite the statue of Myron Discobolus, Athens 116 35 Greece
The Panathenaic or Kallimarmaro Stadium is the stadium which hosted the First Modern Olympic Games in 1896.
Made intirely by Pentelic marble can still accomodate 60.000 spectators!
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Leoforos Vasilissis Olgas Leoforos Amalias, Athens 105 57 Greece
The temple of Olympian Zeus used to be the largest temple in Greece. Unfortunately only 16 columns are surviving almost 2.000 years after its construction by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.
Duration: 20 minutes
Stop At: Change of Guards, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Syntagma, Athens 10562 Greece
You can watch the Change of the Presidential Guards and the Tomb of the Uknown Soldier in front of the Parliament Hous or Old Royal Palace in Syntagma Square.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Mount Lycabettus, Athens Greece
Mount Lycabettus is the highest hill of Athens, from where you can enjoy an astonishing panoramic view of Athens.
Duration: 5 minutes
Stop At: Plaka, Athens 10556 Greece
Plaka is the oldest neighborhood of Athens. We can drive at the narrow streets of the most picturesque spot of the city or even spend some time walking around the shops.
Stop At: Monastiraki, Athens Greece
Monastiraki square is the most famous commercial district of Athens. We can pass by and take a look at the shops, the flea market, the central food market of Athens and the Ancient Agora from outside.
Stop At: Lake Vouliagmeni, Vouliagmeni 166 71 Greece
Lake Vouliagmeni, literally means “sunken”, as it was created after the roof of an underground cave colapsed. It is now a beautiful lake, located near the sea and in fact connected with it. its water, fed with hot water by underground thermal springs, is beneficial for the skin and bones.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Temple of Poseidon, Cape Sounio, Sounio 195 00 Greece
The Temple of Poseidon is a temple dedicated to God Poseidon, the God of the sea, standing for 2.500 years right on the edge of the clifs of Cape Sounio, the southern most tip of the peninsula of Attica.
Duration: 1 hour