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Underground Athens by Athens Underground: Sections Through Soil and History, plus Kerameikos: private tour
- From €117.00
Prehistory at the National Archaeological Museum and the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art, with Athenian panorama from Lycabettus Hill. Same-day, private tour.
- From €175.00
Highlights of the National Archaeological Museum and the Acropolis Museum, with Athens city tour: Private
- From €207.00
Archaeological Treasures of Athens, Argolid and Corinthia
- From €1,475.00
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Underground Athens by Athens Underground: Sections Through Soil and History, plus Kerameikos: private tour
Underground Athens by Athens Underground: Sections Through Soil and History, plus Kerameikos
Duration (approximate): 4 hours and 30 minutes
Athens and it illustrious monuments attract millions of visitors
every year; few visitors however are aware that treasures also lie underground,
as this is a very ancient city; some of these treasures are on display at a
number of Athens Metro (subway) stations, as the works to create the subway
network were combined with meticulous and painstaking archaeological
excavations. The resulting findings exposed through the sections of hospitable
Athenian soil include ancient houses, streets, sanctuaries, cisterns, workshops
and aqueducts, as well as more than 50,000 ancient artifacts. A large part of
the findings is exhibited in six Athens Metro stations, thus affording the
latter the rare dual function of being modern constructions full of movement
and technology whilst also serving as museum and stratigraphic sections of
their particular localities.
This novel and delightful half-day tour focuses on the exhibits
of three modern Athens Metro stations, in combination with an illuminating
visit to the open-air archaeological site of Kerameikos and the Agora.
The programme is led by a licenced archaeologist-guide, lasts approximately
four hours and thirty minutes and is offered round the year.
Schedule
Due to the closing times of Kerameikos archaeological site as
well as to make the best use of daylight, we have two versions of this tour,
namely one for the summer period opening times and the other for the winter
period, as follows:
Winter schedule:
(November-April): Kerameikos archaeological site (12:00 hrs start) - Monastiraki
metro station - Syntagma metro station - Acropolis metro station (18:30 hrs
end)
Summer schedule: (May-October):
Acropolis metro station (15:30 hrs start) - Syntagma metro station –
Monastiraki metro station - Kerameikos archaeological site (20:00 hrs end
Points of Interest and programme highlights:
Monastiraki metro station : Of particular interest to
archaeology buffs will be an underground exhibition showing a portion of the
course of Eridanos, a stream repeatedly mentioned in accounts of
ancient Athens and which flowed from Lycabettus hill, through the Agora of
ancient Athens to the archaeological site of Kerameikos. The stream's bed was
covered with earth for the most part since antiquity, only to be revealed
during the Athens Metro excavations.
Syntagma metro station: Excavations
here during the construction of the station revealed a
sculpture workshop dating from the Classic Era, a Roman bath complex, a cemetery
dating back to the sub-Mycenaean and the Byzantine times, a section of the
Peisistratian Aqueduct, the ancient road leading from the gates of the walls of
Athens to the municipalities of Messogaia and the bed of Eridanos stream.
Acropolis metro station: The first level of the
station houses copies of sculptures of the Parthenon, along with findings from
the excavations at the station, including items from the daily lives of ancient
Athenians as well as artifacts of public life, spanning in all from the 17th
century BC to the 12th century AD. A stratigraphic section of and ancient road
is exhibited in the second level, whilst in the third level and along the train
platforms for a length of 25 m (82 ft) there are replicas of the Parthenon
zophoros, the originals of which are in the British Museum.
Kerameikos archaeological site : Kerameikos (meaning
'the place of the ceramics') was the main area of production of the famed
pottery of Attica. As the region was crossed by a stream and was prone to frequent
flooding, Kerameikos was not suitable as a settlement and gradually became a
place of burial, becoming in the end the most important necropolis of ancient
Athens.
At Kerameikos our licenced archaeologist-guide will be
enlightening us about the findings housed in its little museum as well as about
the functions of this very important part of ancient Athens.
Meeting points and times:
The below two meeting points have been selected conveniently to
cover most central Athens hotels, both by foot and via the nearby metro
stations.
(A) Winter schedule
(November-April): At 11:45 just outside Monastiraki metro station.
(B) Summer schedule
(May-October): At 15:15 hrs just outside Acropoli metro station.
Drop off points:
(A) Winter schedule: The tour ends at Acropolis metro station.
(B) Summer schedule: The tour ends at Monastiraki metro station.
Price inlcudes :
Licenced archaeologist-guide throughout the tour
Museum and metro tickets
Not included:
Gratuities (optional)
Refreshments
Please note that all times and durations are indicative and may
vary.
Restrictions
- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 1
From €175.00
Prehistory at the National Archaeological Museum and the Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art, with Athenian panorama from Lycabettus Hill. Same-day, private tour.
This novel and convenient private, half-day afternoon programme combines the exploration of the two most important archaeological museums of Athens with a tour of this illustrious city.
The programme is led by a licensed archaeologist-guide, lasts approximately five hours and is offered round the year.
Points of Interest and programme highlights, in chronological sequence:
- The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient Greek art, housing in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is considered one of the greatest museums in the world and contains the richest collection of artifacts from Greek antiquity worldwide.
Periods and Sections covered: Prehistoric / Neolithic / Cycladic /
Mycenaean / Santorini.
- On our Athenian Panorama en route from the National
Archaeological Museum to the Acropolis Museum we will drive up Lycabettus Hill
(299 m/981 ft) to take in a bird's-eye
view of Athens, the vista stretching from the northern mountains of Attica all
the way to the Saronic Gulf, with Athens sprawling in between and with the
iconic Acropolis Hill just a couple of miles away to the south-west.
- The Goulandris Museum
of Cycladic Art was
founded in 1986, initially to house collection of Cycladic and Ancient Greek
art belonging to Nicholas and Dolly Goulandris. It is one of the great museums
of Athens, housing a notable collection of Greek
antiquities, with special interest in the prehistoric art from the Cyclades
islands of the Aegean Sea.
Starting and ending times:
From 14:00 till 16:00 at the National
Archaeological Museum,
followed by the visit to Lycabettus Hill lasting and arriving at the Museum of Cycladic Art at 18:00 with the tour
ending there at 19:30. These times and durations are approximate.
Meeting and drop-off points:
Our team will pick you up and return you to your central Athens hotel.
Price includes:
Licensed archaeologist-guide throughout the tour
Transportation by air-conditioned minibus
Museum tickets
Price does not include:
Refreshments
Gratuities (optional)
Please note that all times and durations are indicative and may vary due to traffic, weather and other conditions.
Restrictions
- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 1
From €207.00
Highlights of the National Archaeological Museum and the Acropolis Museum, with Athens city tour: Private
Specially designed both for museophiles as well as for visitors interested in and enchanted by the history and achievements of Ancient Greece, this novel and convenient half-day afternoon programme combines the exploration of the two most important archaeological museums of Athens: the National Archaeological Museum and the award-winning Acropolis Museum, with a short coach tour of this illustrious city.
This informative and convenient programme is led by a licensed archaeologist-guide, lasts approximately five hours and is offered round the year.
Points of Interest and programme highlights, in chronological sequence:
- The National Archaeological Museum of Athens is the largest archaeological museum in Greece and one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient Greek art, housing some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity.
Periods and Sections covered: Prehistoric / Mycenaean / Cycladic / Santorini /Archaic / Classical / Hellenistic / Roman plus the celebrated Antikythera Mechanism.
- On our Athens City Tour en route from the National Archaeological Museum to the Acropolis Museum we will pass by the Athens Academy, University, the ancient Panathenian Stadium (of 566 BC and home to the first modern Olympic Games), the statue of the Discobolus, the all-glass sculpture of Dromeas (the Runner), and the Zappeion complex.
- The multiple-award-winning Acropolis Museum focuses on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on the surrounding slopes, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. It lies over the ruins of a part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens.
The tour runs from 14:00 till 16:00 at the National Archaeological Museum, followed by the city tour lasting 45 minutes, arriving at the Acropolis Museum at 17:00 with the tour ending there at 19:00. These times and durations are approximate.
This not-to-be-missed experience offers an ideal introduction to the archaeological wonders of ancient Greece, in combination with seeing today's bustling city of Athens and some of its important monuments.
Restrictions
- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 1
From €1,475.00
Archaeological Treasures of Athens, Argolid and Corinthia
Our tours are conducted round the year and are all supported and escorted by our hand-picked specialist, licensed guides.
We are passionate believers in the miracle that is Greece and are equally passionate in the design and delivery of our programmes, all of which offer perspectives which resonate with the essence of Greece and which can foment thought, arouse the imagination and inspire interesting discussions during and after our tours.
This well-researched and rewarding programme provides a deeply informative and expert introduction to the archaeological wonders of legendary regions instrumental to the civilisation of Ancient Greece : the Argolid, Corinthia, and Athens.
The target audience of this programme will typically include avid admirers and discerning connoisseurs of classical Greek archaeology, ancient history and natural beauty who would relish the experience of seeing the most evocative sites and monuments at first hand .
Accommodation is in 3+ and four-star hotels (or higher), all of which abound with character. Transportation is by modern, air-conditioned coach whilst the venues of lunch and dinner have been carefully chosen, not least with the hungry explorer in mind - but also to respect and reflect the ancient Greek tradition where eating is central to social interaction and happy bonding.
Some of the points of interest include the following. Clicking on an underlined name will open a new tab rich in information on the respective point of interest.
Aghia Marina Chapel | Athens Acropolis | Athens Museum of Cycladic Art | Ancient Corinth | Ancient Epidaurus | Ancient Mycenae | Ancient Nemea | Ancient Tiryns | Archaeological Museum of Nauplion | Argive Heraion | Cape Sounion | Corinth Canal | Kefalari | Museum of Natural History of Lygourio | Nauplion | National Archaeological Museum of Athens | New Acropolis Museum | Palaia Epidavros | Pyramid of Hellinikon | Pyramid of Lygourio.
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- people Group Size: From 1 Up To 1
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