Classical Greece
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Greece Classical Tour plus CLASSICAL GREECE WITH METEORA and ATHENS sightseeing and ACROPOLIS (5 days/4 nights)
Accommodation: Tourist or First Class hotels
2nd Tour Day:
In the morning (08:30) we start our classical
Greece tour driving towards Peloponnesus.
After a short stop at Corinth Canal we visit Epidaurus to see the famous for its acoustics ancient theater (4th century B.C.) Then after a short stop at
beautiful Nafplio, the first capital of Greece in its modern history, we visit
the Homeric city of Mycenae (1300 B.C.) to see the Lions Gate, the Cyclopean Walls, the Royal Tombs. Then driving through the picturesque
country of Central
Peloponnesus we arrive to our hotel at
Olympia for our dinner and overnight. 3td Tour day: Visit Ancient Olympia, the archeological site with the
Temple of Zeus, the Temple of Hera, the altar of the Olympic flame,
the Olympic stadium of 45,000 seating capacity where the first Olympic games took place in 776 B.C, the archaeological museum with the
famous Hermes of Praxitelus status. Then pass by Patras and crossing the Corinthian bay by the
4th Tour Day: To date we'll see Delphi, the naval “omfalos" of the world. We visit the archeological site and the museum.
At Delphi you
5th Tour Day: Short drive in the morning to the unique Meteora to visit the Byzantine Monasteries standing between earth and the sky atop huge rocks and containing historical and religious treasures. Return to Athens in the evening passing the monument of Leonidas at Thermopiles. Remarks
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1st Tour Day: Athens sightseeing, Constitution Square (Syntagma), the House of Parliament, the Memorial to the Unknown Soldier and the National Library.
Driving down Herod Atticus street, you will see the Evzones in their picturesque uniform and the Presidential Palace.
On your way to the acropolis you will see the Hadrian’s Arch, visit the Temple of Olympian Zeus and you will make a short stop at the Panathenaic Stadium where the first modern Olympic Games took place in 1896.
Then Acropolis, the architectural masterpieces of the Golden Age of Athens, Propylaea, Temple of Athena Nike, Erechtheion, and finally Parthenon-
a place any civilized person has to visit. We complete the visit with the
Museum of Acropolis. Dinner and overnight in Athens. Optionally in the night
you can have dinner at Plaka (Athens old town), in a Greek tavern with classical folklore program.
new bridge we pass by the city of Nafpactos
and following the coastal road we arrive at Delphi. In the afternoon we visit the picturesque mountain of Arachova.
Dinner and overnight at Delphi.
might get Pythia’s chrism for your future and the future of the world, as it had happen to many Kings and Emperors in the past.
Even Alexander the Great got her advice. Later with a driving through
central Greece we arrive at Kalampaka,
a small town at the foot of majestic grey rocks, where we have our dinner and overnight.
