Today a modern, busy city and the capital of Greece, Athens was the heart of the ancient Greek civilization. The city’s most fascinating attractions are its 5th century BC structures, such as the 3,000-year-old Acropolis with its magnificent ancient buildings like the Parthenon and its massive colonnades.

Acropolis Museum

Acropolis Museum

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Located in the heart of Athens, designed by architects Bernard Tschumi and Michael Photiadis, and opened in 2009, the Acropolis Museum has three levels of permanent collections in addition to the archaeological excavation at its foundations.

Acropolis of Athens

Acropolis of Athens

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Located on a small hill in the heart of Athens, the Acropolis dominates the city landscape today as it did at the time it was constructed, more than 3,000 years ago.

Ancient Agora of Athens

Ancient Agora of Athens

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The Ancient Agora of Athens, or the gathering place of classical Athens, is located northwest of the Acropolis between the hill of the Areopagus and the Agoraios Kolonos or Market Hill.

Benaki Museum

Benaki Museum

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The Benaki Museum of Greek Culture was originally used to house a collection of over 37,000 Islamic and Byzantine objects donated in 1931 by the Benaki family.

Byzantine and Christian Museum

Byzantine and Christian Museum

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The Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens, Greece, was founded in 1914 and is one of the most important museums of Byzantine art in the world.

First Cemetery of Athens

First Cemetery of Athens

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The First Cemetery of Athens is both the official and the oldest cemetery of the city of Athens.

GB Roof Garden Restaurant and Bar

GB Roof Garden Restaurant and Bar

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Located in the iconic luxury 19th century Grande Bretagne hotel in the heart of Athens, GB Roof Garden Restaurant and Bar is a refined, elegant restaurant with absolutely breathtaking views of the Acropolis, the Hellenic Parliament, and Lycabettus Hill.

Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art

Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art

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Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art promotes and studies the culture of ancient Aegean and Cyprus with a focus on Cycladic art of the third millennium BC.

Monastiraki Flea Market

Monastiraki Flea Market

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Monastiraki Flea Market, located around the Monastiraki Square in Athens, is one of the city’s most popular tourist attractions.

Mount Lycabettus

Mount Lycabettus

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The top of Lycabettus Hill is the highest spot in Athens at 900 feet above sea level. There is a circular path leading to the top of Mount Lycabettus, providing some nice exercise, but it is quite steep and it can be a challenge during hot summer months.

National Archaeological Museum

National Archaeological Museum

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The National Archaeological Museum is one of the most famous museums in the world and is the largest museum in Greece.

National Garden

National Garden

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Surrounded by so much history and spectacular archeological monuments, the Athens National Garden is a peaceful oasis welcomed by the locals and tourists as a spot to rest on a hot summer day.

Numismatic Museum of Athens

Numismatic Museum of Athens

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The Numismatic Museum of Athens houses one of the largest collections of ancient and modern coins in the world.

Odeon of Herodes Atticus

Odeon of Herodes Atticus

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The Odeon of Herodes Atticus is a magnificent stone theater located on the southwest side of the Acropolis Hill in Athens.

Panathenaic Stadium

Panathenaic Stadium

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The Panathenaic Stadium, also called Kallimarmaro or “beautiful marble,” is a multipurpose stadium in Athens, Greece, made entirely out of marble.

Parthenon

Parthenon

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The first temple visitors see when they arrive to Athens is the Parthenon, perched high on Acropolis Hill and dominating the entire landscape.

Technopolis

Technopolis

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Located in the Gazi neighborhood, next to Keramikos and near the Acropolis, Technopolis is an industrial museum of the gas industry and an important cultural venue of Athens.

Temple of Hephaestus

Temple of Hephaestus

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Dedicated to Hephaestus, the ancient god of fire, the Temple of Hephaestus was built in 450 BC at the western end of the city, on the Agoreos Koronos hill.

Temple of Olympian Zeus

Temple of Olympian Zeus

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The Temple of Olympian Zeus is a ruin of a huge former temple at the center of Athens. It was dedicated to Zeus, the king of the Olympian gods.

The Agora-Athens Central Market

The Agora-Athens Central Market

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Operating since 1886, Athens’ public market is one of the most popular markets in town, equally used by locals shopping for food and tourists curious about the way of life of Athenians. The market is divided into a fish, vegetable, and meat market and stretches along both sides of Athinas Street.

Plaka

Plaka

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Located in the shadow of the Acropolis, with cobblestone streets crossing the hillside, Plaka is a lively village-like neighborhood and one of the most popular tourist spots in Athens.

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The Temple Of Poseidon at Sounion

The Temple Of Poseidon at Sounion

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Perched on a rocky cliff of Cape Sounion, on the tip of Attica, is The Temple Of Poseidon at Sounion, the Greek god of the sea – the last sight ancient Athenian seafarers had of their homeland before crossing the Aegean.

Theatre of Dionysus

Theatre of Dionysus

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The Theatre of Dionysus is located on the southern slopes of the Acropolis Hill in Athens.

Tower of the Winds

Tower of the Winds

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The Tower of the Winds is an octagonal marble clocktower located in the Roman Agora in Athens and once served as a horologion or "timepiece."