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Day 1 Arrival In Athens
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Arrival In Athens

Arrival at Athens "Eleftherios Venizelos" airport. Our trusted assistant will meet you there and escort you to our luxurious car which will take you to your selected hotel. As the first day is schedule-free, we recommend a walk to enjoy the Athenian landscape . Dinner and overnight in Athens.

Accommodation: A 4-star hotel in Athens.

Meals: Not included
Day 2 Panoramic Tour Of Athens
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Panoramic Tour Of Athens

On the second day, you will have a panoramic tour of the city.

The Panoramic Tour of Athens includes the following iconic landmarks:

1. Panathenaic Stadium

Step into history at Athens’ Panathenaic Stadium, where ancient athletes once competed. Marvel at the marble grandeur, feel the echoes of cheers, and relive the Olympic spirit in this iconic arena.

2. Old Royal Palace

The Maximos Mansion is located at Herodes Atticus Street 19, next to the Presidential Mansion and the National Garden of Athens. The building was founded in 1912 by Alexandros Michalinos, a wealthy shipowner from the island of Chios. Before the construction of the mansion, the site was a garden for the Royal Palace. Between 1941 and 1944, during the Nazi occupation of Greece, the mansion was used as the residence of the German Admiral of the Aegean Sea. After the war, the building was briefly used as the residence of the U.S. ambassador in Athens. In 1952 Dimitrios Maximos sold the mansion to the Greek state at a favourable price. In 1982, the prime minister’s office was moved into the mansion (prior to that, the prime minister’s office was located inside the Parliament building).

3. Temple of Olympian Zeus

The Temple of Olympian Zeus is a former colossal temple at the centre of the Greek capital Athens. It was dedicated to "Olympian" Zeus, a name originating from his position as head of the Olympian gods. Construction began in the 6th century BC during the rule of the Athenian tyrants and was during the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd century AD, some 638 years after the project had begun. During the Roman period the temple, which included 104 colossal columns, was renowned as the largest temple in Greece and housed one of the largest cult statues in the ancient world.

4. Arch of Hadrian

The Arch of Hadrian, most commonly known in Greek as Hadrian’s Gate, is a monumental gateway resembling—in some respects—a Roman triumphal arch. It spanned an ancient road from the centre of Athens to the complex of structures on the city’s eastern side, including the Temple of Olympian Zeus.

5. Hellenic Parliament

The Hellenic Parliament is a neoclassical three-floor structure designed by Friedrich von Gärtner and completed in 1843, originally served as a palace for the Greek monarchs, hence sometimes still referred to as the "Old Palace". The building has been used for many different purposes — functioning as a makeshift hospital, a museum, etc. — until November 1929, when the government decided that the building would permanently house Parliament. After more extensive renovations, the Senate convened in the "Old Palace" on 2 August 1934, followed by the Fifth National Assembly on 1 July 1935. Although the monarchy was restored that same year, the building has housed Parliament ever since.

6. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a war memorial located in Syntagma Square in Athens, in front of the Old Royal Palace. It is a cenotaph dedicated to the Greek soldiers killed during the war. It was sculpted between 1930 and 1932 by sculptor Fokion Rok. The tomb is guarded by the Evzones of the Presidential Guard.

7. The Academy of Athens

The Academy of Athens is Greece’s national academy and the highest research establishment in the country. It was established in 1926, with its founding principle traced back to the historical Academy of Plato and operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Education. The Academy’s main building is one of the major landmarks of Athens.

8. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

The National University of Athens has been in continuous operation since its establishment in 1837 and is the oldest higher education institution of the modern Greek state and the first contemporary university in both the Balkan Peninsula and the Eastern Mediterranean. Today it is one of the largest universities by enrollment in Europe, with over 69,000 registered students. The National University of Athens is integral to the modern Greek academic and intellectual tradition.

9. National Library of Greece

The National Library of Greece is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens. Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to locate, collect, organize, describe and preserve the perpetual evidence of Greek culture and its uptake over time, as well as important representative evidence of human intellectual production. It ensures equal non-access to these items based on the freedom of knowledge, information, and research.

10. Plateia Syntagmatos

The National Library of Greece is the main public library of Greece, located in Athens. Founded by Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1832, its mission is to locate, collect, organize, describe and preserve the perpetual evidence of Greek culture and its uptake over time, as well as important representative evidence of human intellectual production. It ensures equal non-access to these items based on the freedom of knowledge, information, and research.

11. Acropolis

The Acropolis of Athens is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The term acropolis is generic and there are many other acropoleis in Greece. During ancient times the Acropolis of Athens was known also more properly as Cecropia, after the legendary serpent-man, Cecrops, the supposed first Athenian king.

12. Propylaea

The Propylaea is the classical Greek Doric building complex that functioned as the monumental ceremonial gateway to the Acropolis of Athens. Built between 437 and 432 BCE as a part of the Periclean Building Program, it was the last in a series of gatehouses built on the citadel. Its architect was Mnesikles, his only known building. It is evident from traces left on the extant building that the plan for the Propylaea evolved considerably during its construction and that the project was ultimately abandoned in an unfinished state.

13.Temple of Athena Nike

The Temple of Athena Nike is a temple on the Acropolis of Athens, dedicated to the goddesses Athena and Nike. Built around 420 BC, the temple is the earliest fully Ionic temple on the Acropolis. It has a prominent position on a steep bastion at the southwest corner of the Acropolis to the right of the entrance, the Propylaea. Nike was the goddess of victory in Greek mythology, and Athena was worshipped in this form, representative of being victorious in war. The citizens worshipped the goddesses in hopes of a successful outcome in the long Peloponnesian War fought against the Spartans and allies.

14. Erechtheion

The Erechtheion or Temple of Athena Polias is an ancient Greek Ionic temple-telesterion on the north side of the Acropolis, which was primarily dedicated to the goddess Athena. The building, made to house the statue of Athena Polias, has in modern scholarship been called the Erechtheion (the sanctuary of Erechtheus or Poseidon) in the belief that Pausanias’ description of the Erechtheion applies to this building.

15. Parthenon

The Parthenon is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena during the fifth century BC. Its decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of Greek art, an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece, democracy, and Western civilization. It was built in thanksgiving for the Hellenic victory over Persian invaders during the Greco-Persian Wars and replaced an older Athena temple, which historians call the Pre-Parthenon or Older Parthenon, that was demolished in the Persian invasion of 480 BC.

16. Acropolis Museum

The world-renowned museum was built to house every artefact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece and will in particular also house the sculptures historically known as the "Elgin Marbles" (sculptures stolen from the Acropolis in the early nineteenth century by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and currently held in the British Museum) when these are returned to Athens. The Acropolis Museum also lies over the ruins of a part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens. The museum was founded in 2003 while the Organization of the Museum was established in 2008. It opened to the public on 20 June 2009. More than 4,250 objects are exhibited over an area of 14,000 square meters.

Accommodation: A 4-star hotel in Athens.

Meals: Breakfast
Day 3 Athens - Mycenae - Epidaurus– Olympia
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Athens - Mycenae - Epidaurus– Olympia

1. Corinth Canal

Leave by the coastal road to the Corinth Canal (short stop).

2. The Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus

The theatre has long had a reputation for its exceptional acoustics, which reportedly allowed almost perfect intelligibility of unamplified spoken words from the proscenium or skēnē to all 14,000 spectators, regardless of their seating.

3. Nafplio

Nafplio is a coastal city located in the Peloponnese in Greece, founded in antiquity, and became an important seaport in the Middle Ages during the Frankokratia as part of the lordship of Argos and Nauplia, held initially by the de la Roche following the Fourth Crusade before coming under the Republic of Venice and, lastly, the Ottoman Empire. The city was the second capital of the First Hellenic Republic and of the Kingdom of Greece, from 1827 until 1834

4.Archaeological Site Mycenae

Mycenae ’Rich in Gold’, the kingdom of mythical Agamemnon, first sung by Homer in his epics, is the most important and richest palatial centre of the Late Bronze Age in Greece. Its name was given to one of the greatest civilizations of Greek prehistory, the Mycenaean civilization, while the myths related to its history have inspired poets and writers over many centuries, from the Homeric epics and the great tragedies of the Classical period to contemporary literary and artistic creation.

5. Citadel and Treasury of Atreus

Transfer to Mycenae and visit the Archaeological Site and the Tomb of Agamemnon. It is the most impressive of the preserved Mycenaean tholos tombs, situated at Mycenae, on Panagitsa hill. The "Treasure of Atreus" was constructed in ca. 1250 B.C. and was in use for a long period, not precisely defined.

6. Lion Gate

The Lion’s Gate was the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, southern Greece. It was erected during the 13th century BC on the northwest side of the Acropolis of Mycenae and is named after the relief sculpture of two lionesses or lions in a heraldic pose that stands above the entrance. The Lion’s Gate is the sole surviving monumental piece of Mycenaean Sculpture, as well as the largest sculpture in the prehistoric Aegean. The Lions Gate is the only monument of Bronze Age Greece to bear an iconographic motif that survived without being buried underground, and the only relief image which was described in the literature of classical antiquity, such that it was well known prior to modern archaeology.

7. Archaeological Site of Olympia

Depart for Olympia through Central Peloponnese and the towns of Tripolis and Megalopolis. Arrive at Olympia, the cradle of the ancient Olympic Games. (Dinner and overnight)

Accommodation: A 4-star hotel in Olympia.

Meals: BreakfastDinner
Day 4 Olympia - Delphi
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Olympia - Delphi

1. Archaeological Site of Olympia

In the morning visit the Archaeological Site with the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus, the Ancient Stadium and the Archaeological Museum.

2. Archaeological Museum of Olympia

Morning visit to the Archaeological Site with the sanctuary of Olympian Zeus, the Ancient Stadium and the Archaeological Museum.

3. Delphi

Then drive on through the plains of Ilia and Achaia until the magnificent bridge which is crossing the Corinthian Bay from Rion to Antirion. Pass by the picturesque Town of Nafpactos (Lepanto) and Itea, arrive in Delphi. (Dinner and overnight)

Accommodation: Overnight at a 4-star hotel in Delphi.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 5 Delphi - Kalabaka – Meteora
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Delphi - Kalabaka – Meteora

1. Delphi

Morning visit the Archaeological Site of Delphi. was a sacred precinct that served as the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The oracle had origins in prehistory and it became international in character and also fostered sentiments of Greek nationality, even though the nation of Greece was centuries away from realization. The ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi, marked by the stone monument known as the omphalos (navel).

2. Delphi Archaeological Museum

Delphi Archaeological museum is one of the principal museums of Greece and one of the most visited. Founded in 1903, it has been rearranged several times and houses the discoveries made at the Panhellenic sanctuary of Delphi, which dates from the Late Helladic (Mycenean) period to the early Byzantine era. Organised in fourteen rooms on two levels, the museum mainly displays statues, including the famous Charioteer of Delphi, architectural elements, like the frieze of the Siphnian Treasury and ex-votos dedicated to the sanctuary of Pythian Apollo, like the Sphinx of Naxos.

3. Meteora

Depart for Kalabaka, a small town situated at the foot of the astonishing complex of the Meteora, those gigantic rocks that rise steep from the plain of Thessaly. (Dinner and overnight in Kalabaka).

Accommodation: A 4-star hotel in Kalampaka.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 6 Meteora - Thessaloniki
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Meteora - Thessaloniki

1. Meteora

The Meteora (plural) are 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. Between the 13th and 14th centuries, the twenty-four monasteries were established atop the rocks. Meteora was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1988 because of the outstanding architecture and beauty of the complex, in addition to its religious and artistic significance.

2. Mount Olympus

Depart from Kalabaka, drive through the striking plain of Thessaly and the Valley of Tempi, and as you pass through the landscape, admire the gigantic figure of Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece and home of the 12 Gods in Greek Mythology.

3. Thessaloniki

Arrival at Thessaloniki, the second largest and the most vibrant city in Greece! (Dinner and overnight)

Accommodation: A 4-star hotel in Thessaloniki.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 7 Experience The City Of Thessaloniki
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Experience The City Of Thessaloniki

1. Thessaloniki

In the morning visit the city that throughout the era of the Byzantine Empire was the "co-reigning" city, second in population and prestige, second only to Constantinople. Visit unique monuments and feel the glorious Byzantine past in some of the oldest and most characteristic churches of the Christian world as well as in the Museum of Byzantine Culture, awarded with the Council of Europe’s Museum Prize for the year 2005. Rest of the day free, to enjoy time in the lively center of the city. (Dinner and overnight)

Accommodation: A 4-star hotel in Thessaloniki.

Meals: BreakfastDinner
Day 8 Thessaloniki - Edessa - Naoussa
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Thessaloniki - Edessa - Naoussa

1. Edessa Waterfalls

Depart in the morning for a unique approach to historical Macedonia. First stop in Edessa, to admire the gorgeous Waterfalls. The main source of these waterfalls is the wetland of Agra-Nissiou, from which flows the main river, Edessaios. The paths of the Waterfall Park include the stone-paved path to Ancient Edessa through the plain of the city. This passage was a part of the ancient Egnatia road linking Ancient Edessa, the Acropolis of Edessa (Varosi district) and Thessaloniki until the beginning of the 20th century.

2. Naousa

Stop at Naousa. The area, according to Herodotus, was where the fertile Gardens of King Midas were situated. Later, in the current position of the city, the Romans established the colony of Nova Augusta. The name changed through the centuries to Niagusta, Niaousta and Niaousa, until it became today’s Naousa. It was known as "Ağustos" during Ottoman rule. Naousa is the only city in Greece with the name "heroic", after the massacre that took place during the Greek revolution in 1822.

Accommodation: A 4-star hotel in Thessaloniki.

Meals: Breakfast, Dinner
Day 9 Thessaloniki - Pella - Athens
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Thessaloniki - Pella - Athens

1. Archaeological Museum of Pella

Head towards Pella, the capital of Alexander the Great. The daily life of Pella is presented in the exhibition. The most important exhibits are the mosaic floors from the Houses of Dionysus, and of the Abduction of Helen from the House of the Wall Plasters.

2. Dion Archaeological Park

Visit the Archaeological Park of Dion, the sacred city of the Macedonians, at the foot of mountain Olympos. In the Archaeological Park of Dion, sanctuaries were found from the Hellenistic and Roman periods. The park displays the importance of ancient Dion in the history of Pieria.

3. Battlefield of Thermopylae

After the visit, we drive to Thessaly, Lamia, Thermopylae (see Leonidas’ Monument) and Thebes, arriving in Athens late in the afternoon.

Accommodation: A 4-star hotel in Athens.

Meals: Breakfast
Day 10 Departure From Athens
12:00 am - 11:59 pm

Departure From Athens

1.Athens International Airport "Eleftherios Venizelos"

According to your departure flight, you will be transferred to the airport, with a luxurious car.

Meals: Breakfast

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Athens, Olympia, Delfi, Meteora And Thessaloniki,10-Day Grea

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Itinerary of your trip Athens, Olympia, Delfi, Meteora And Thessaloniki,10-Day Grea

Arrival In Athens

Panoramic Tour Of Athens

Athens - Mycenae - Epidaurus– Olympia

Olympia - Delphi

Delphi - Kalabaka – Meteora

Meteora - Thessaloniki

Experience The City Of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki - Edessa - Naoussa

Thessaloniki - Pella - Athens

Departure From Athens

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