Greece classical tour
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GTN code: Greece Tour #1 Classical Greece Tour plus CLASSICAL GREECE WITH METEORA and ATHENS sightseeing (6 days/5 nights)
Accommodation: Tourist or First Class hotels
2nd 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. Drive towards Peloponnesus and after a short stop at Corinth Canal with its breathtaking view, we arrive at Tolo
a picturesque sea side small town. Dinner and overnight.
3rd Tour day:
This morning we'll see Epidaurus; the famous for its acoustics
ancient theater (4th century B.C.). We visit
the Homeric city of Mycenae (1300 B.C.) to see the Lions Gate, the Cyclopean Walls, the Royal Tombs.
Then after a short stop at beautiful Nafplio, the first capital of Greece in its modern history,
we drive through the picturesque country of Central Peloponnesus and we arrive at
Olympia. Dinner and overnight. 4th 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 sculpture of Praxitelus .Then pass by Patras and crossing the Corinthian bay by the
5th Tour day: Today we'll see Delphi, the naval “omfalos" of the world. We visit the archeological site and the museum.
At Delphi you
6th 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 late afternoon having before a short stop at the monument of Leonidas at Thermopiles. Remarks
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1st Tour day: Athens Arrival in Athens. Transfer to the hotel in
Athens. Optionally you can have a Greek night at Plaka (Athens old
town), in a Greek tavern with folklore program.
new bridge we pass by the city of Nafpactos
and following the coastal road we arrive at Delphi. 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 before conquering the known in
those days world. 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.