Download ATHENS Greece - Awaydays personal travel (Kent)

ATHENS
Greece
th
Sunday 5 November –
Thursday 9th November 2017
£599.00pp 5 days
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region
and is one of the world's oldest cities, with its recorded history spanning over 3,400
years, and its earliest human presence starting somewhere between the 11th and 7th
millennia BC.
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Registered company of England No. 6662700. Registered Office: 114 West Street, Faversham, Kent. ME13 7JB
Directors: Brian Booth, John Durcan
Acropolis: Built on a rocky crag, this complex of ancient buildings is where great ideas
about law, art, philosophy and literature were birthed. Today, it remains an icon of
European culture. Meander through the Propylaea, Erechtheum and Temple of Athena
Nike, or visit the Parthenon at sunrise to watch the morning mist rise over Athens.
Our accommodation. Set in one of the finest areas in Athens,
Acropolis Boutique Museum Hotel
offers charming accommodation with free Wi-Fi. It is a short walk from the Acropolis
and Plaka. Rooms are decorated in a simple, luxurious style. They are painted in
natural colours and feature high ceilings, wooden floors, original paintings and
comfortable queen-size or double beds with ecological mattresses. A rich breakfast
buffet is served daily at the Acropolis Museum Hotel’s breakfast area.
Situated at the foot of the Acropolis hill, the hotel is within walking distance of the
Parthenon, Temple of Zeus, Hadrian Arch and the other important sites. Guests can
easily walk to Syntagma Square, and the exclusive Ermou and Kolonaki shopping
areas. The hotel reception will be happy to assist guests with city maps and guides,
and tourist information, or make arrangements for travel and restaurant
recommendations and reservations.
PRICE INCLUDES
All transfers.
Return flights from Gatwick.
Hotel accommodation with breakfast.
Private Awaydays Tour of surrounding area (see below)
Services of Awaydays Representative throughout Trip.
m: 07808 068468 :: t: 01795 590008 :: e: [email protected] :: w: http://www.awaydays.biz
Travel Organiser (Europe) Ltd trading as Awaydays
114 West Street, Faversham, Kent ME13 7JB
Registered company of England No. 6662700. Registered Office: 114 West Street, Faversham, Kent. ME13 7JB
Directors: Brian Booth, John Durcan
INCLUDES A PRIVATE FULL DAY ATTICA TOUR (ATHENS’ SURROUNDINGS)
This is a day tour to the most interesting and beautiful sites around Athens. (Marathon,
Vravrona, Cape Sounio) We start our 8hr tour in an executive minibus by heading north of
Athens passing some of Athens’s most beautiful and expensive suburbs (Kifisia, Ekali,
Drosia). We will make a short stop at the dam of Marathon’s Lake, the main water source for
the city of Athens. Then we’ll approach the plain of Marathon where the historical battle
between the Athenians and the Persians took place in 490 B.C. Here we’ll visit first the
starting point of the Olympic Marathon race, an event which started with the first modern
Olympics in Athens in 1896. The race was inspired by the fabled run of an Athenian soldier
named Pheidippides who took the message of the great victory from the Battlefield of
Marathon to Athens. Then we’ll visit the “Tymvos”, the tomb which was raised in the burial
ground in honour of the Athenian soldiers who fell in the battle against the Persians. As an
ultimate honor and recognition of their bravery the dead of the Marathon Battle were the only
ones ever to be buried where they died instead of in the main cemetery of Athens in
Kerameikos. We’ll complete our tour in the plain of Marathon with a visit to the Museum of
Marathon. After our visit we will drive South through several towns and summer resorts and
we’ll stop again at the temple of Artemis in Vravrona, sometimes called "The Parthenon of the
Bear Maidens". Skipped by most visitors - and most tour operators - solely because it is a bit
out of the way this temple is rarely crowded and stands by a delightful Museum filled with
images of the children who once studied at the temple of Artemis called "little bears" or
arktoi. Time for lunch (cost not included) and there is no better place to have one than in the
furthest southern peak of Attica “Cape Sounio” in front of the deep blue water of the Aegean
Sea. Here we’ll visit the temple of Poseidon the most visited site outside Athens built in 440
B.C. by Pericles. Returning back to Athens via the scenic coastal road will be the most
picturesque part of the whole tour. Temple of Poseidon at cape SounionTemple of Poseidon
at cape Sounion Temple of Poseidon at cape Sounion.
This private tour is flexible. It is always up to the group to change the itinerary according to
your wishes. Admission fees and lunch are not included in the price of the tour
m: 07808 068468 :: t: 01795 590008 :: e: [email protected] :: w: http://www.awaydays.biz
Travel Organiser (Europe) Ltd trading as Awaydays
114 West Street, Faversham, Kent ME13 7JB
Registered company of England No. 6662700. Registered Office: 114 West Street, Faversham, Kent. ME13 7JB
Directors: Brian Booth, John Durcan