Athens Trip Overview
This two days tour is an amazing opportunity for travellers to be in touch with the Ancient Greek world and one of the most beautiful Unesco’s monument. Also they will have enough time to get rest, to enjoy local food and go shopping.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 days
Starts: Athens, Greece
Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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This two days tour is an amazing opportunity for travellers to be in touch with the Ancient Greek world and one of the most beautiful Unesco’s monument. Also they will have enough time to get rest, to enjoy local food and go shopping.
Itinerary
Day 1: Delphi
Stop At: Delphi, Delphi, Phocis Region, Central Greece
Delphi is formerly also called Pytho,is the ancient sanctuary that grew rich as the seat of Pythia, the oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the omphalos (navel).
It occupies a site on the south-western slope of Mount Parnassus, overlooking the coastal plain to the south and the valley of Phocis. It is now an extensive archaeological site with a small modern town of the same name nearby. It is recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in having had a great influence in the ancient world, as evidenced by the various monuments built there by most of the important ancient Greek city-states, demonstrating their fundamental Hellenic unity.
Duration: 2 hours
Stop At: Arachova, Arachova, Boeotia Region, Central Greece
Arachova is a mountain town and a former municipality in the western part of Boeotia, Greece, originally called Karyai. Since the 2011 local government reform it is a municipal unit, part of the municipality Distomo-Arachova-Antikyra.Its name is of South Slavic origin and denotes a place with walnut trees. It is a tourist destination due to its location in the mountains, its traditions and its proximity to the town of Delphi.
Duration: 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
Accommodation included: Travellers will accomodate in a traditional hotel to the Village of Kastaki/Kalampaka(price is not included)
Day 2: Meteora
Stop At: Meteora, Kastraki, Kalambaka 422 00 Greece
The Meteora is a rock formation in central Greece hosting one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox monasteries, second in importance only to Mount Athos.The six (of an original twenty four) monasteries are built on immense natural pillars and hill-like rounded boulders that dominate the local area. It is located near the town of Kalambaka at the northwestern edge of the Plain of Thessaly near the Pineios river and Pindus Mountains.
Meteora is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List under criteria I, II, IV, V, and VII.The name means “lofty”, “elevated”, and is etymologically related to meteor.
Duration: 3 hours
Stop At: Thermopylae Museum, Thermopylae Greece
Thermopylae (hot gates) is a place in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity. It derives its name from its hot sulphur springs.The Hot Gates is “the place of hot springs” and in Greek mythology it is the cavernous entrances to Hades”.
Thermopylae is world-famous for the battle that took place there between the Greek forces (notably the Spartans) and the invading Persian forces, commemorated by Simonides in the famous epitaph, “Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, That here obedient to their laws we lie.” Thermopylae is the only land route large enough to bear any significant traffic between Lokris and Thessaly. This passage from north to south along the east coast of the Balkan peninsula requires use of the pass and for this reason Thermopylae has been the site of several battles.
A main highway now splits the pass, with a modern-day monument to King Leonidas I of Sparta on the east side of the highway. It is directly across the road from the hill where Simonides of Ceos’s epitaph to the fallen is engraved in stone at the top. Thermopylae is part of the infamous “horseshoe of Maliakos” also known as the “horseshoe of death”: it is the narrowest part of the highway connecting the north and the south of Greece. It has many turns and has been the site of many vehicular accidents.
Duration: 30 minutes
No meals included on this day.
No accommodation included on this day.
