Top 10 Neighborhoods to Stay During Your Trip in Athens, Greece
In my capacity as a side-hustle tour guide in and around Athens, one of the most common inquiries I hear from my prospective clients is this: ”In which part of Athens should we stay?“ With this question in mind, I ...
Top 10 Day Trip Destinations from Athens, Greece
The birthplace of Western civilization and one of Europe’s most vibrant contemporary capitals, the immortal city of Athens suffers no shortage of appeal to thrill its millions of visitors. Besides its own prestige, however, Athens boasts a strategic position at ...
How to get from Athens Airport to Athens City Center
Here you will find comprehensive, concise, up-to-date instructions and information on how to get from the airport of Athens to the city center. Check out additional resources if you instead want to get from Athens Airport directly to Piraeus Port ...
Top 10 (+39) Best Museums in Athens, Greece
Field of human activity for millennia and cradle of Western civilization, Athens couldn't have a shortage of museums for all tastes of curiosity. In the first part of this article, I list the ten museums I (subjectively, as an average ...
Mount Lycabettus: the Complete Guide to the Best Viewpoint of Athens
Although it’s often called a mountain, Mount Lycabettus is a hill. With an elevation of 277 meters above sea and a prominence of 227 meters above the city, Lycabettus Hill becomes the second-highest point within the Athenian basin (the highest ...
Tourkovounia Hill (Attiko Alsos Park): Athens’ Highest Peak
Tourkouvonia is the highest and most extensive hill range within the metropolitan area of Athens. Spanning 4 km, it splits the northern Attic basin into east and west and forms a natural boundary between four municipalities: Galatsi to its west, ...
Hill of the Nymphs & the National Observatory of Athens, Greece
The Hill of the Nymphs (or Nymphs Hill) is one of several rocky outcrops in the heart of Athens’ historic center. It forms one large forested area with the adjacent hills of the Pnyx and Philopappos, facing the hills of ...
Areopagus Hill Viewpoint: the Open-Air High Court of Ancient Athens
The Areopagus Hill (Areios Pagos or Mars Hill) is a limestone outcrop in central Athens, just below the entrance of the Acropolis and above the Agora. The site holds immense historical significance for hosting the prestigious high court of pre-democratic ...
How to get from Athens Airport to Piraeus Port
Here you will find comprehensive, concise, up-to-date instructions and information on how to get from the airport of Athens directly to Piraeus Port. Check out additional resources if you instead want to get from Athens Airport to the center of ...
Lake Marathon: Day Trip from Athens
After having gone on a hiking trip with me on Mount Parnitha, my guest and new friend Mo from the UK asked me to organize yet another day trip out of Athens for her. This time she wanted something more ...
Athens to Mycenae, Tiryns, and more – driving day trip
The other day, I was contacted by Sean, a Serbian-American musician working on a project of recording music videos at mysterious archeological sites around the world. What better country could he have found for that than Greece? He found me ...
Dragon Houses (Drakospita) of Evia Island in one day from Athens
As the Dragon Houses (Gr. Δρακόσπιτα/Drakospita) is known a bunch of megalithic structures found scattered throughout the southern part of Evia Island in Greece. The buildings have puzzled archeologists ever since their rediscovery in the 18th century, as no mention ...