Athens Features

Experience Athens

When to Go to Athens

Except for August and major holidays, when many Athenians migrate to their ancestral villages outside...

Best of Athens in 1 to 5 Days

If you're planning a quick day in Athens before heading off elsewhere on the mainland or to an island...

If you see nothing else in Athens, you must visit the Acropolis. Even jaded Athenians, when overwhelmed...

Take time to explore the side streets graced by old mansions under renovation by the Ministry of Culture...

To feel the buzz of the cutting-edge arts spaces sprouting up in Athens's roughneck former industrial...

On the Menu

The best of Athens's restaurants have made enormous strides in quality and style since about 2002, thanks...

Quick Eats

The souvlaki is the original Greek fast food: spit-roasted or grilled meat, tomatoes, onions, and garlicky...

Pleasures & Pastimes

On any street corner, at any time of day, you will see Athenians practicing the art of hanging out...

Classical Glories

You don't have to look far in Athens to encounter perfection. Towering above all -- both physically and...

Greek Timeline

ca. 6000 BC Beginning of Neolithic period in Greece, with introduction of domesticated plants and animals...

Beach Excursions from Athens

There's little that compares with the feeling of diving off the rocks into pristine waters at some secluded...

Side Trip to Marathon

Today Athenians enter the fabled plain of Marathon to enjoy a break from the capital, visiting the freshwater...

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