Acropolis of Athens
Athens, Greece
The Acropolis of Athens is the limestone hill above the city crowned by the Parthenon, the marble temple of Athena…
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Ancient Cities in Greece
Greece's ancient cities are as often sanctuaries and citadels as towns, and they run from Bronze Age Mycenae and Akrotiri to Classical Athens and the Hellenistic cities of Messene and Pella.
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Ancient Olympia
Olympia, Greece
Ancient Olympia is the sanctuary of Zeus in the western Peloponnese where the Olympic Games were held every four years…
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Mycenae
Mykines, Greece
Mycenae is the hilltop citadel of the Bronze Age kings who dominated Greece around 1350 BC and gave their name to…
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Ancient Corinth
Corinth, Greece
Ancient Corinth is the excavated centre of one of the richest cities of ancient Greece, sacked by Rome in 146 BC and…
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Delos
Delos, Greece
Delos is the small island off Mykonos that the Greeks held sacred as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis, and its…
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Akrotiri
Santorini, Greece
Akrotiri is the Bronze Age town on the south coast of Santorini that the great Theran eruption buried in volcanic ash…
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Pella
Pella, Greece
Pella was the capital of ancient Macedon and the birthplace of Philip II and Alexander the Great, 40 km west of…
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Philippi
Kavala, Greece
Philippi is the ancient city founded by Philip II of Macedon in 356 BC on the Via Egnatia, 15 km north-west of Kavala…
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Aptera
Chania, Greece
Aptera is an ancient city-state on a hilltop 13 km east of Chania in western Crete, about 150 metres above Souda Bay.
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Ancient Agora of Athens
Athens, Greece
The Ancient Agora of Athens was the civic heart of the classical city, the square below the Acropolis where citizens…
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Acropolis of Lindos
Lindos, Greece
The Acropolis of Lindos crowns a sheer rock about 116 metres above the white village of Lindos, on the east coast of…
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Ancient Messene
Messene, Greece
Ancient Messene is a Greek city founded in 369 BC by the Theban general Epaminondas below Mount Ithome, 25 km north of…
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Acropolis of Rhodes
Rhodes, Greece
The Acropolis of Rhodes is the hilltop sacred quarter of the ancient city, on Monte Smith about 3 km south-west of the…
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Ancient Eleusis
Elefsina, Greece
Ancient Eleusis is the sanctuary of Demeter and Persephone in the town of Elefsina, about 20 km west of Athens, where…
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Ancient Eleutherna
Rethymno, Greece
Ancient Eleutherna is a Greek city-state on a steep ridge below Mount Ida in central Crete, about 25 km south-east of…
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Ancient Sparta
Sparta, Greece
Ancient Sparta is the archaeological park on the low acropolis hill at the north edge of the modern town, in the…
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Ancient Kamiros
Rhodes, Greece
Kamiros is the ruined Doric city on the west coast of Rhodes, laid out on three terraces down a hillside facing the…
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Asklepieion of Kos
Kos, Greece
The Asklepieion of Kos is the ancient healing sanctuary of the god Asclepius, set on three terraces on a wooded…
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Dion
Dion, Greece
Dion, at the foot of Mount Olympus in northern Greece, was the sacred city of the ancient Macedonians, where kings…
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Dodona
Dodoni, Greece
Dodona is the sanctuary of Zeus in the hills of Epirus, the oldest oracle in Greece and second only to Delphi in fame.
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Ancient Agora of Kos
Kos, Greece
The Ancient Agora of Kos is the excavated market square of the Hellenistic and Roman city, laid out in the heart of…
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Ancient Thera
Santorini, Greece
Ancient Thera is the ruined Greek city on the ridge of Mesa Vouno in Santorini, about 360 metres above the black-sand…
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Heraion of Perachora
Perachora, Greece
The Heraion of Perachora is a sanctuary of Hera set around a small cove at the tip of the Perachora peninsula, about 14…
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Olous Sunken City
Agios Nikolaos, Greece
Olous was a Greek city of eastern Crete whose remains now lie in the shallow water of Elounda Bay, near the causeway to…
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The Acropolis of Athens comes first, for the Parthenon and the Erechtheion; Delos, an island off Mykonos, is one whole excavated city of temples, mosaic-floored houses and marble lions; Akrotiri on Santorini keeps Bronze Age houses two and three storeys high under a modern roof; Mycenae has the Lion Gate and the Treasury of Atreus; Olympia, the original stadium and the Temple of Zeus. Book Acropolis timed slots days ahead in season and take the 8 am entry.