Sightseeing tour of Athens

We offer you a tour of the main and most interesting sights of the capital of Greece.

The Acropolis of Athens is a symbol of our civilization, our culture. We admire the Parthenon's radiant raffinade. The acropolis has amazing magic, which annually attracts about 12 million tourists to this outstanding monument of architectural architecture. We can all be called pilgrims. We're going to the temple. To solve the mystery of this miracle.

What is the Acropolis anyway? The king's palace? The big church? How about a mosque? Or Notre Dame Cathedral? When, by whom and with what money was it built? Where did they hide the eleven-meter statue of the goddess Athena, standing in the center of the temple? After all, only gold on its decoration went about a ton and a half.

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We offer a car climb to the observation deck of the hill Likavittos (Licabeth), and we also take professional binoculars. The hill Lycavittos (277 meters above sea level), set by the goddess Athena herself in the very center of the city (why? - I will tell you on the way), now allows you to look at the capital of Greece from a bird's eye view from its slope.

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Another mandatory point for every tourist visiting Athens is to change the guard of the National Guard. Two-meter height, the young people walk a ceremonial march reminiscent of ancient ritual combat dances of militant Spartans. But why are they wearing skirts?

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The ancient stadium, exactly recreated for the first Olympics, amazes with the harmony of the lines. Here the Athenians applauded athletic achievements, and during the period of Roman rule gladiators were cut to death. Contemporaries claim that up to a thousand herb-thirsty, hungry animals were released to the arena for a greater spectacle.

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Rock Areopagus - Supreme Court. From here there is a magnificent view of Athens, and as it gets dark, lovers gather here to dream, looking at the lights of the big city. This romantic aura persists during the day.

Christian pilgrims can often be seen here. From the top of the Areopagus, the Apostle Paul addressed the Athenians. Acts 17: And when they took him, they brought him into the Areopagus, and said, Can we know what new teaching you are preaching? For you put something strange in our ears. So we want to know what that is? But the Athenians, and the foreigners living there, did not spend any more time in anything than to speak or hear something new.

And as Paul stood among the Areopagus, he said, Athenians, I see from all things that you seem especially devout. For as I passed and examined your shrines, I also found an altar on which it was written “to the unknown God.” That which you do not know, honor, I preach to you.

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The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is an ancient theater still in operation. Its unique acoustics allow the sound to easily reach the upper tiers. World names of music and theater consider it an honor to perform on its stage. Five thousand spectators can accommodate its ranks. Ancient architects combined the perfect beauty of harmony with the technical cunning of acoustics.

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Neoclassical masterpieces of Athens: in the middle of the 19th century, after the formation of the modern state of Greece, it was decided to decorate the capital with palaces built in imitation of ancient temples. Statues of proud Athena and the lord of the muses of Apollo tower over the Academy, in the shadow of which sit in brooding Socrates and Plato. The light of millennia falls on mansions that try to argue with the Parthenon.

Modern Athens is a lively, hospitable city. To discover through its prism the great historical past arising from the myths known to all of us since childhood, our sightseeing tour gives you this opportunity.

Our trips are informative stories about the history of Greece against the background of real objects of this thousand-year-old, mythical and legendary civilization.

Visit the main attractions, but not the cost of tickets to the Acropolis.