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Athens Sightseeing

This tour offers to you guided tour around Athens while you are seating in one of the air-conditioned high deck buses and a guided tour at the Acropolis just outside the Parthenon.
Our professional guides will take you to the Holy Rock Acropolis to visit Propylea, Temple of Athena Nike, Erechteion and Parthenon, which was built 2.500 years ago.
Furthermore, you will have free time to visit the Acropolis Museum on your own or admire the magnificent view of Athens, lying at your own feet.

Listed below are all the major sites of Athens that you will see with us: 
National Archaeological Museum -  National Theatre - Omonia Square - Open Market – Athens City Museum - National Historical Museum (Old Parliament) - Syntagma Square - Plaka Area - Downtown shopping  center - Flea market - St. Nikodimos Russian Orthodox - St. Paul’s Anglican - National Park (ex Royal Gardens) - House of Parliament (ex Royal Palace) - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - (Evzones) - Iliou Melathron - Numismatic Museum (H. Schliemann’s Home) - St. Denis Roman Catholic Cathedral - Central Bank of Greece - Academy of Arts & Letters - University - National Library - , Byzantine, War Museums - Lyceum - Presidential Residents  (ex Royal Palace) - Change of the Honor Guards –Zappio Congress - Temple of Olympic Zeus -  Hadrian’s Gate - Dionysos Theatre - Asclepieum Medical Center - Herod Atticus Odeon - Areopagous (St. Paul Acts XVII on Mars Hill) - Filoppapou Hill - Pnyx the Hill of Democracy - Observatory - Agora.

Athens by Night

The tour starts with a visit to the main Greek port of Piraeus, passing by the most important points of the city (City Hall, picturesque yacht's harbour of Microlimano etc). Following the principal avenues and passing by the Temple of Olympian Zeus, National Garden, Parliament, Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Catholic Cathedral, Academy, University, National Library, Old Parliament we arrive at Plaka. Short pleasant walk through the old unique Athens city to one of the popular taverns for dinner with live bouzouki music and Greek folk.

Cape Sounion ½ day tour

As you leave the coastal suburbs of Athens you pass towns and settlements, mostly in bays, harbours and beaches. Some Athenians have built their summer and weekend homes out here and villages have sprung up out of nowhere. But the closer you get to Sounion on the tip of the Attiki peninsula the less houses there are until finally you come to a few hotels and a nice little beach with two tavernas. The temple of Sounion sits above the beach on a mountain that juts out into the sea and was dedicated to Poseidon. In ancient times the temple was the last sign of civilization the Athenians saw as they sailed away from home and the first as they returned and even now when sail to the islands on the ferry it is not until we pass the temple that we are 'officially' out of Athens. The choice of this spot was a good one. It is hard to imagine a more perfect setting for an ancient temple, in particular one dedicated to the god of the sea.

The temple is of Doric style and was built in the 5th Century BC, supposedly on the location of an even older temple. You are not allowed to enter the temple any longer and it is roped off but you can get close enough to appreciate it and even read the graffiti carved on the ancient columns, some of it hundreds of years old. Lord Byron is in there somewhere and if you have binoculars and a camera with a large zoom you can get a photo of it as did traveller Steven Christensen. Once you get up there you will understand how it is possible that a class full of 9th graders could be so distracted and the temple could hold our interest only fleetingly. The view is incredible. You can see the islands of Kea, Kythnos and clear over to the Peloponessos with ships and fishing boats passing by.

Walking Tours in Athens (4 different walks in the city of Athens)

Acropolis Tour      
By this tour you will see among other places: The Acropolis monuments and the surrounding monuments of Acropolis, The Constitution Square.
The Acropolis of Athens is the best known acropolis (high city, The "Sacred Rock") in the world. Although there are many other acropoleis in Greece, the significance of the Acropolis of Athens is such that it is commonly known as The Acropolis without qualification. The Acropolis was formally proclaimed as the pre-eminent monument on the European Cultural Heritage list of monuments on 26 March 2007[1]. The Acropolis is a flat-topped rock which rises 150 m (490 ft) above sea level in the city of Athens. It was also known as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Kekrops or Cecrops, the first Athenian king.

Across the city    
By this tour you will see among other places: The Panathinaic Stadium, The Zeus Temple, The National Gardens, The House of Parliament, The Monument to the Unknown Soldier, The Zappeion Hall.
The Panathinaiko (Panathenaic) Stadium (also known as the Kallimarmaron, i.e. the "beautifully marbled") in Athens is the only major stadium in the world built fully of white marble (from Mount Penteli). In ancient times it was used to host the athletic portion of the Panathenaic Games in honor of the Goddess Athena.
The Zappeion is a building in the National Gardens of Athens in the heart of Athens, Greece. It is generally used for meetings and ceremonies, both official and private.
The Temple of Olympian Zeus (Greek: Ναός του Ολυμπίου Διός or Naos tou Olimpiou Dios), also known as the Olympieion, is a colossal ruined temple in the centre of the Greek capital Athens that was formerly dedicated to Zeus, king of the Olympian gods.

The National Archaeological Museum.     
By this tour you will see among other places: The University of Athens, The Library, The Academy of Sciences, The National Archaeological Museum, The House of Parliament, The Syntagma Square, The Monument to the Unknown Soldier.
The National Archaeological museum of Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece.
The biggest and most representative museum in Greece.

Ancient Agora – Plaka & Monastiraki monuments   
By this tour you will see among other places: The Ancient Agora, The Museum of Agora,  The Athens Cathedral, The Roman Market 
The agora in Athens had private housing, until it was reorganized by Peisistratus in the 6th century BC. Although he may have lived on the agora himself, he removed the other houses, closed wells, and made it the centre of Athenian government. He also built a drainage system, fountains and a temple to the Olympian gods. Cimon later improved the agora by constructing new buildings and planting trees. In the 5th century BC there were temples constructed to Hephaestus, Zeus and Apollo.
The Areopagus and the assembly of all citizens met elsewhere in Athens, but some public meetings, such as those to discuss ostracism, were held in the agora. Beginning in the period of the radical democracy (after 509 BC), the Boule, or city council, the Prytaneis, or presidents of the council, and the Archons, or magistrates, all met in the agora. The law courts were located there, and any citizen who happened to be in the agora when a case was being heard, could be forced to serve as a juror; the Scythian archers, a kind of mercenary police force, often wandered the agora specifically looking for jurors.
The agora in Athens again became a residential area during Roman and Byzantine times
The Stoa of Attalos (also spelled Attalus) is recognized as one of the most impressive stoa in the Athenian Agora. It was built by and named after King Attalos II of Pergamon who ruled between 159 BC and 138 BC.
Monastiraki is a flea market in the old town of Athens, Greece where bargaining was the norm. Nowadays, it is the best place to buy souvenirs from Greece at low prices, without necessarily having to bargain. Monastiraki is also the place where you can find antique furniture and is the home of coin -and not only- collectors. Actually the area is named after Monastiraki Square, where the metro station is. The main street of this area is Pandrossou and Adrianou street.
Plaka is the picturesque old historical neighborhood of Athens, just under the Acropolis, with labyrinthine streets and neo-classical architecture. It is visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists around the year. Museums in Plaka include the new Jewish museum, the Greek Folk Art Museum and the Frissiras Museum.


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