Half-day excursions The Erechtheion: A Temple of Unique Architecture and Mythological Significance The Erechtheion is a refined structure with a distinct character and architectural form, located on the northern side of the Acropolis hill. It was constructed between 421 and 406 BCE, replacing an earlier temple dedicated to Athena Polias, known as the “Old Temple,”…
Half-day Excursions The Holy Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos Penteli, also known as the Monastery of Penteli, is a historic male monastery located on the southern side of Mount Penteli in Athens. It currently belongs to the Archdiocese of Athens. The Monastery was built in 1578 by Saint Timothy, the Bishop of Euripus,…
Half-day excursions The Temple of Athena Nike is located on the southwestern side of the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis, at the spot where the Mycenaean-era tower, which protected the entrance to the Acropolis, once stood. The classical temple was built between 426-421 BC, based on designs by the architect Kallikrates. It is the successor…
Half-day excursions The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, commonly known as the Herodeion, is an ancient Roman-era odeon located on the southwestern slope of the Acropolis of Athens, at the western edge of the South Slope. It was the third to be built in ancient Athens, after Pericles’ Odeon, also on the South Slope (5th century…
Half-day excursions The Tower of the Winds, also known as the Horologion of Andronikos Kyrrhestes, is one of the most charming archaeological monuments of Athens. It is located in the Roman Agora, in the Plaka area, and is considered the first meteorological station in the world! Built entirely of Pentelic marble in the first half…
Half-day excursions The Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens were built on the western side of the rock, in the place where the gate of the fortification of the Mycenaean acropolis was located. Around the middle of the 6th century BC, during the time of the Peisistratids, and while the area had already been transformed…
Half-day excursions The temple that the Athenians dedicated to their city’s protector, Athena Parthenos, is the most magnificent creation of Athenian democracy during its golden age and the most perfect in terms of composition and execution among the buildings of the Sacred Rock. It was constructed between 447–438 BC as part of the larger building…
Half-day Excursions The Monastery of Daphni is located in Chaidari, on the outskirts of Mount Egaleo, on the Athens-Lavrio highway, 11 km from the center of Athens, and is built on the site where the Temple of Apollo Daphnaios once stood. Its impressive architecture and the unique mosaic decoration of its church make it one…
Half-Day excursions The Kaisariani Monastery is a medieval church in Attica. It is located on Mount Hymettus, in the valley almost at the middle of its western slope. In the past, the area was forested and full of olive trees, and near the monastery, there was a spring with abundant cold water. This spring is…
Trikala Trikala, the capital of the homonymous province, is a beautiful city built on the site of ancient Trikka (according to mythology, the nymph Trikka was the daughter of Peneus) and the birthplace of the famous ancient doctor, Asclepius. The city owes much of its beauty to the picturesque river Lithaios as well as to…