Athens metro tours - art and archeology underground
Have you found yourself in Athens on a holiday, and the sites are closed? Or perhaps it’s a rare rainy day and you’d like to find a way to stay under cover, yet still see some sites?
How about an Athens Art and Archeology tour, by metro?
As you can imagine, digging anywhere in Athens runs the [...]
World Heritage Sites in Athens and Beyond
While most visitors to Greece know that the country is full of archeology, many visitors are not aware that Greece is home to a total of 16 UNESCO designated World Heritage Sites, and four of these sites are easily visited from Athens?
1. The Acropolis, which, by the way, was not the first Hellenic World Heritage [...]
The National Archeological Museum of Athens for techies (and bored teens)
So you are off to Athens, where, along with visiting the ancient sites, you’ll probably spend some time exploring the National Archeological Museum. It has quite a large collection, and while most visitors only spend an hour or so viewing the highlights and your traveling teens may roll their eyes at yet another museum and [...]