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This is the most comprehensive tour of Athens on the market. Spend a full day exploring the city with an expert guide and all-inclusive skip the line tickets to the city’s most popular attractions. You’ll tour the Acropolis before the crowds arrive, see the treasures of the New Acropolis Museum, gape at the Temple of Hephaestus in the Ancient Greek Agora, other highlights include a traditional Greek lunch, a visit to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens, and witnessing the Changing of the Presidential Guards ceremony. covers centuries of the city's history in a single day, using skip the line tickets at the major attractions from the past and present.
Highlights
- Beat the crowds and the heat at the Parthenon by using skip the line tickets and following our special itinerary that gets your group to the top of the Acropolis before everyone else.
- Explore the Acropolis with an expert local guide and see some of the most jaw-dropping structures in the ancient world.
- Enjoy a traditional lunch at a family-run restaurant.
- Maximize your time with a carefully planned itinerary.
- Witness the Changing of the Presidential Guards ceremony.
This comprehensive experience takes you to all of Athens’ most important attractions in a single day. With all-inclusive, skip the line t ickets to all sights and an expert local guide to show you around, there is no more enjoyable or authentic way to enjoy the city for travelers who are short on time.
You start with, skip the line tickets to the Acropolis, the mighty temple stronghold at the heart of the city. Following a specially-timed itinerary, you’ll reach the Parthenon before many of the crowds arrive. After you have learned its story and a few of its secrets, your guide will show you around the other main sights of the Acropolis including the Monumental Gateway, Erechtheum, Theater of Dionysus.
As the Acropolis begins to fill with visitors you’ll head down the hill and use skip the line tickets to enter the Ancient Greek Agora, the commercial center of the Athens over 2,000 years ago. Here, you’ll learn about everyday life in the world’s first democracy and see buildings like the Stoa of Attalos and the incomparable Temple of Hephaestus, which is about 2,500 years old but looks like it was built yesterday. You'll briefly stop outside the Roman Agora for an introduction from your guide and advice on how to visit on your own.
Take a lunch break in Monastiraki Square, a busy plaza in the heart of Athens. Your guide will take you to a beloved family-run restaurant for mouthwatering souvalki, flavorful marinated meat served with delicious pita, that's included in the price of your tour.
After lunch, it's time to delve into the modern history of the city, starting with a visit to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens. As the seat of the archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church of Athens, this is the city's largest and most important cathedral. Listen as your guide unpacks the connection between Greek history and religion in the modern era.
On your way to the final stop, you'll walk along the city's bustling shopping street for yet another glimpse into present-day Athens until reaching Syntagma Square. With helpful context and commentary from your guide, you'll witness the Changing of the Presidential Guard that occurs every hour outside the Greek Parliament at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
It would take a lifetime to see all the of the art, culture and archeology that Athens has to offer, but if you want to see as much as you can in a single day, you won’t find a more comprehensive or enjoyable experience than this group tour.
Important information
Please note that tour will be exclusively guided in English.
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