Cape Sounion
The tour begins in front of the
Parliament in Syntagma Square where you will see the Monument of the Unknown
Soldier and the change of the famous Guards. A pleasant walk will follow
through the National Garden and on to the Zappeion Hall, the Temple of Olympian
Zeus and the Hadrian’s Arch. From here you will enter the Plaka area heading to
the Acropolis and visit with your guide the Propylaea, the Temple of Nike, and
the Parthenon, the monuments that remind us of Glory of Ancient Athens and the
Golden Age of Pericles. See also in the surrounding the Athenian Agora, the
Observatory, the Hill of Democracy (Pnyx), Mars and Philoppapos Hill, the Odeon
of Herodes Atticus, and the Theater of Dionysus. At the end of the tour, and
since you are so close, do not miss the opportunity to visit on your own the
New Acropolis Museum.