Meet the city where Culture, Science and Politics create our way of thinking, living, reacting.
Highlights
Panoramic view of a live city map from the Lycabettus hill
Stop at the Panathinaic Stadium and the Temple of Zeus
Watch the change of the presidential guards in front of the Parliament House
Walk up the Acropolis Hill
Visit the amazing New Museum of Acropolis
Walk around the Ancient Greek & Roman Agora
Enjoy the relaxing atmosphere of Plaka
Athens full Day
Experience a full-day tour in Athens, by visiting the unique monuments in the Ancient Classical period of Athens and feeling the vibe of the modern city. Starting from Lycabettus Hill with a city panoramic view we will be driving down to the Panathenaic Stadium made of clear white marble where the first modern Olympic Games were held in 1896.
We will then continue to visit the Temple of Zeus the largest in ancient Greece, taking over 700 years to build, drive to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament House on Constitution Square (Syntagma), were we will see the changing of the famous Presidential Guards.
Continuing our tour along Panepistimiou Avenue, we will pass by the Catholic Cathedral, the Academy, University, National Library and Omonia Square. Then we will visit the Acropolis, the 156 meter high rock hill that crowns the city of Athens there we will of course meet the Parthenon and a variety of ancient constructions of temples, theaters and administration buildings.
Walking down the beautiful pavement road of Irodou Attikou we will find the New Acropolis Museum with the surviving treasures of the Acropolis building complex. From here we will continue into Plaka the oldest neighborhood of Athens, with lots of Churches, ancient remains, Neo-classical buildings, Frankish houses and finally we will enter the heart of ancient city, the Ancient Roman Agora, and the Ancient Greek Agora.
The man behind the Legend of the Golden Age of Athens
Pericles (495–429 BCE, whose name means “surrounded by glory”) was a prominent statesman, famous orator, and general (in Greek ‘Strategos’) of Athens during the Golden Age of Athens. So profound was his influence that the period in which he led Athens has been called the ‘Age of Pericles’
This statesman’s influence on Athenian society was so great that Thucydides, his contemporary admirer and historian, called him “the first citizen of Athens”. Pericles led the Delian League forward to form the Athenian empire and guided his countrymen during the first two years of the Peloponnesian Wars.
Pericles promoted the arts, literature, and philosophy and gave free reign to some of the most inspired writers and thinkers of his time. During the Age of Pericles, Athens blossomed as a center of education, art, culture, and democracy. Artists and sculptors, playwrights and poets, architects and philosophers all found Athens an exciting and enlivening atmosphere for their work. Athens under Pericles saw the building of the Acropolis and the glory of the Parthenon. The playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes (in short, all of the great Greek writers for the stage) invented theater as it is known in the modern-day. Hippocrates (who inspired the Hippocratic Oath still taken by physicians today) practiced medicine in Athens then while sculptors like the famous Phidias (who created the statue of Zeus at Olympia, considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as well as the statue of Athena Parthenos for the Parthenon) and Myron (who produced the masterpiece Discus Thrower) worked in their marble and stone. The great philosophers Protagoras, Zeno of Elea, and Anaxagoras were all personal friends of Pericles (Anaxagoras especially, who influenced Pericles’ public demeanor and acceptance of fate, especially after the death of Pericles’ sons) and Socrates, the man considered the ‘father of western philosophy’, all lived in Athens at the time.
Pericles
Acropolis Museum Opening Hours
- Tuesday to Sunday: 08:00 a.m. until 20:00
- Last admission: 19:30
- The Museum is open every Friday until 22:00
Entrance fee required :
12 Euros for Acropolis
5 Euros for the Acropolis Museum
- Free entrance : For students from E.U (student id is required)
- Free entrance : For children under 19 years old
- Reduced entrance fee for students outside the E.U
- Reduced entrance fee for citizens over 65 years old from E.U Countries
Note: Please note that on this tour, your driver is not licensed to accompany you on your climb to the top of the Acropolis or inside any other site or museum. If you want a licensed guide to tour the sites with you, you can hire one at extra cost.
