Private Acropolis – City Highlights Tour
If we could describe the perfect day exploring the history of Athens, this would definitely be it. If your time is really limited in the city of Athens, the Acropolis and the highlights tour of Athens is the ideal option, since it gives you the chance to visit everything you cannot miss before you leave the city, only within 4 hours.Two hours filled with interesting and educative information about one of the most important archeological sites in the world, the Sacred Rock of Acropolis, is the essence of this tour. Our tour will begin with a visit to the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, best known for its exemplary acoustics, where the Athens festival, the annual arts festival takes place to this day. We will then explore the Temple of the Goddess of Victory, called Nike, enjoy the remarkably beautiful nesting sensation within the magnificent gate of Propylaea, discover where the first Temple of the Acropolis used to exist, meet in person the famous Karyatides, the women figured statues who stand both magisterially and affectionately in the portico of the Erechtheon Temple supporting its intricate ceiling throughout the centuries. And finally we will have the chance to discover all the secrets of the architecture and the decoration of the masterpiece of the classical antiquity, the breathtaking Parthenon! This is a tour that every citizen of the world should experience at least once in his lifetime
After we have explored the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis we will continue downhill together visiting the intricate gate of Hadrian, the Temple of mighty Zeus, the Old Olympic Stadium (the original stadium where Olympic Games where held), the Presidential Palace, the beautiful National Gardens and finally finish our tour at the constitution square where we will watch the impressive changing of the guards, which you will most definitely want to capture with a photograph. If getting a representative taste of everything Athens has to offer when it comes to Culture and History is what you are looking for, then this tour will fit you like a glove
