Athens Top Sights

by Tailor Your Holiday Team Greece

Athens Top Sights

Acropolis

The greatest symbol of the glory of Ancient Greece,the Acroplis rises spectacularly over Athens. Acropolis museum's top--floor glass atrium presents the 161m-long Pantheon frieze in its entirety. 

Ancient Agora

The heart of ancient Athens'civic life,and the birthplace of democracy. The Agora Museum bursts with unusual finds and the Tempe of Hephaestus is exquisite.

National Archaeological Museum

It is the world's largest and finest colection of Greek antiquities. Items date from the Neolithic Era (6800BC) to the Cycladic, Mycenaean and Classical Periods.

Temple of Olympian Zeus

It is the largest temple that took more than 700 years to build. It has been completed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Keramikos

It is home to the impressive Street of Tombs and a superb small museum illustrating the spleandour with which the ancient Greeks honoured their dead.

 Filopappou Hill​

It has a charming Byzantine church and looks over the whole Attica basin,with splenid views of the Acropolis.

Benaki Museum

This excellent private museum shows the spectrum of Greece's historical and cultural development , and its fight for independence.