Travelling Look to Athens

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Athens has charmed its tourists for decades. Travelers who have undergone Athens tours regard the city to be a magical place to visit. It is the capital of Greece and is considered to be a city that never sleeps. It is a city that is steeped with glorious historical past, evidence of which lies in the many museums spread throughout the city. Athens is filled with such extraordinary archaeological artifacts that somehow have found a place either in the museum or in the various antique shops or still lies buried under the ground waiting to be excavated. It also has a wonderful and delicious cuisine, and the traditional Greek dishes are the most popular among tourists. Besides having a heavy traditional influence it is also home to spectacular nightlife.

People who have visited this enigmatic city swear that a month would hardly fulfill all that they would like to see around the city. Vacationers who come here are always left with the feeling of "so much to see yet so little time." The tourism infrastructure of the place is simply great. There are plenty of tours that you can take during your stay in the city. Athens tours help you to experience for yourself why this city has for so long captivated the hearts of travelers. In Athens tours, you get to see the incredible historical places and important buildings and monuments that dominate the length and breadth of this city. Athens tours also provide you with the option of taking you to places close to the capital city so that you can see the marvelous monuments and sites of those places as well.

In Athens tours, touristy places that are inside the city usually take half a day to one day to visit at the most. On the other hand places lying on the outskirts of the city, especially in mainland Greece, usually take almost 2 to 7 days to visit. Athens tours provide all sorts of transportation as well to visit these places. There are also cruise trips that take tourists to visit the nearby Saronic islands. This kind of trip lasts for 1 day. The most interesting places covered by Athens tours would definitely include the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, the Panathenian Stadium and the Parliament. You also get the chance to admire the various neoclassical buildings in the city.

Athens tours provide other interesting trips to Cape Sounion, where you get to the magnificent Temple of Poseidon, to Corinth, where you can see the ancient ruins of this town, to Delphi, where you can visit the significant Temple of Apollo and the Archaeological Museum, to Mycenae, where you can admire Lion Gate and the Cyclopean Walls, to Thessaloniki, where you get to see a lot of Byzantine and Roman architectural splendor, and finally to northern Greece, where you can visit other places like Kastoria, Edessa, Pella, Vergina and Thermopylea, all filled with battle histories and stories of Greek war heroes.

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