FIND YOUR MYTH IN GREECE

Classic Tours

 

Athens Tour with visit to Acropolis

 

There are not many cities in the world that capture such beauty and historical significance as the city of Athens.

 
Here, in the city of Gods, there are many historical sites, museums and cultural spaces that a student can visit.

 
From the Acropolis Museum, the Byzantine Museum, the famous theater of Dionysus, the ancient Herod Atticus Odeon, the Ancient Agora of Athens, and the Lycabettus Theater. The Acropolis of Athens has been a sacred site throughout history.

The principal temple on the Acropolis is the Parthenon, dedicated to Athena, the patron goddess of Athens.

  For thousands of years the Acropolis has been the symbol of Athens, the pride and the glory of the city, the link that connects the ancient civilization with the modern one.

  The Acropolis hill, so called the "Sacred Rock" of Athens, is the most important site of the city.

  During Perikles' Golden Age, ancient Greek civilization was represented in an ideal way on the hill and some of the architectural masterpieces of the period were erected on its ground.

  The first habitation remains on the Acropolis date from the Neolithic period. Over the centuries, the rocky hill was continuously used either as a cult place or as a residential area or both.

  The inscriptions on the numerous and precious offerings to the sanctuary of Athena (marble korai, bronze and clay statuettes and vases) indicate that the cult of the city's patron goddess was established as early as the Archaic period (650-480 B.C.).

 

Some High Lights from this Tour :

 

- The Panathenian Stadium 

-Acropolis 

-Acropolis Meseum

– The glass Runner

– National Archaeological Museum 

–National Theatre 

–Omonia Square 

–National HistoricalMuseum(Old Parliament) 

–Syntagma Square

– Plaka Area 

–St. Nikodimos Russian Orthodox

–St. Paul’s Anglican 

–National Park (ex Royal Gardens) 

–House of Parliament (ex Royal Palace)

–Tomb of the Unknown Soldier 

–Iliou Melathron 

–Numismatic Museum 

–St. Denis Roman Catholic Cathedral

–Academy of Arts & Letters 

–University of Athens

– National Library

–Benaki, Byzantine, War Museums 

–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