City Sightseeing Tour in Athens

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Athens City Sightseeing Tour is a private tour around Athens and Cape Sounion which includes a visit to the most important sightseeing and attractions of the city .

In Syntagma Square you will find the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Parliament House and Presidential Palace, once called Royal Palace. In the city centre you will also admire other government buildings and elegant monuments such as the Catholic Cathedral, the Academy, University and the National Library.

The City Sightseeing Tour also includes a stop at the Temple of Olympian Zeus, a colossal temple in the centre of Athens dedicated to Zeus; the Adrian’s arch and finally the Acropolis, a flat-topped rock in the city of Athens, full of awesome monuments and temples. Here you can admire the Propylaea, the monumental gateway to the Acropolis; the Parthenon, dedicated to the greek doddess Athena;  the Temple of Athena Nike, another monument built in honour of Athena; the Erechtheion with its Porch of Maidens; the ancient Agora, which was once the heart of Athens, the focus of political and commercial activity of the city, as well as a religious and cultural place where filosofers used to meet and discuss.

Our Sightseeing Tour will then you guide through a coastal road passing by the beaches of Glyfada, Vouligmeni lake and Lemos cape, where you can admire Saronic Gulf.  Once reached Cape Sounion, at the southernmost point of Attica, you can enjoy a breath-taking view of the Greek temple of Poiseidon, God of the sea, which overlooks the Aegean Sea, seeming to protect and embrace it.

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