PRIVATE tour : Strarting from Piraeus – 10.00am – 6.00pm
ATHENS full-day SIGHTSEEING incl. visit to the Acropolis
Our hostess will await the group outside the customs-house to help them to the parking-lot where
our guides and coaches will be waiting for them.
The tour will start with a short scenic drive along the 2 yachting-ports of Piraeus, Marina Zeas
and Mikrolimano to the coastal road passing from a few of the Olympic Venues used during the Olympics of 2004 in Athens which
leads into central Athens.
First an orientating tour
of Athens will be made, passing by the most important ancient and modern monuments of Athens:
City centre - Syntagma (Constitution) Square - Panathenian Stadium - The House of Parliament (ex Royal Palace) - National Park (ex Royal Gardens)
- The memorial to the Unknown Soldier - The Academy - National Library - Presidential Palace - Change of the Republican Guards
(Evzones) - Zappion Congress Hall - Temple of Olympic Zeus - Hadrian's Arch - Herod Atticus Odeon.
We will finally reach the foot of the Acropolis, the most impressive of all ancient monuments and a masterpiece
of Classical Greek architecture.
Our guides
will take you through the site and give a thorough introduction of its history, Also
the Areopague can be visited – the sacred place where Paul divined himself before the philosophers and where he passed
an “Altar to the Unknown God”.
After
some time at leisure we will descend on foot to the Plaka – the old part of Athens,
lying on the slopes of the Acropolis.
After this,
there are options:
a) time for a stroll and some souvenir hunting in the Plaka (our
guide can help and give advise if wanted)
b ) Visit the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Additional
7 euro.
Tour cost
50 usd per person .
INCLUDED in above rate:
* Private A/C
55-seater coaches, will hold 40 pax and 2 guides
English-speaking
guides during the tour
NOT included
in above rates:
* Lunch
* Admission to Acropolis is 12 euro
* Admission to Museum is 7 euro
