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Yes, you can see the Acropolis on your own from a cruise ship, and on a normal eight-hour call it’s the better way to do it. Ships berth at Piraeus, about 10 km southwest of central Athens, and the metro covers the distance in about 20 minutes for €1.20. What decides whether one day in Athens from the cruise port goes well isn’t the sightseeing, though. It’s the return, and the rule is simple: be on a Piraeus-bound platform two hours before your all-aboard time.
This page is for cruise passengers with a port day at Piraeus who want the Acropolis without the ship’s coach, and for anyone still weighing the two. The caveat that matters: when a ship’s own excursion runs late, the ship knows where its passengers are, but when your DIY day runs late the problem is yours, so the buffers below are the plan rather than a footnote. Staying on land for longer? Start with our Athens itineraries for every trip length. Details checked 26 September 2026 against the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP), OASA, the City of Athens visitor guide, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and the Acropolis Museum.
| Cruise day at a glance | The short answer |
|---|---|
| Where you dock | Piraeus, about 10 km southwest of central Athens, at one of three cruise terminals |
| Cheapest way in | Metro: €1.20 each way on a 90-minute ticket, about 20 minutes to the centre |
| Taxi | On the meter, with no flat fare; the City of Athens puts Piraeus to the centre at around €25 |
| Acropolis ticket | €30 (reduced €15), timed entry, sold online at tickets.hh.gr and on site |
| Book ahead? | Yes: the Acropolis time slot, before you sail if you can |
| Time ashore needed | 6 hours for the Acropolis alone; 8 for the Acropolis, its museum and lunch |
| Be back | On a Piraeus-bound platform 2 hours before all-aboard (2 hours 15 minutes for Terminals B and C) |
| Best time on the hill | The earliest slot you can reach; never plan a summer early afternoon up there |
What’s changed in 2026?
Much of the cruise port advice online predates these changes:
- The Acropolis is €30 all year. The winter half price has gone, so a November call costs the same as a July one. Reduced tickets are €15.
- The official ticket site has a new address. The Ministry of Culture now sends buyers to tickets.hh.gr, part of the Hellenic Heritage portal launched on 5 September 2025; the older hhticket.gr address runs as the same service.
- There’s no combined ticket. The Ministry lists single-site tickets only: the Ancient Agora and the Temple of Olympian Zeus are €20 each.
- First Sundays aren’t free at the Acropolis. Its free days are 6 March, 18 April, 18 May, the last weekend of September and 28 October.
- The Ancient Agora has one gate. Since 1 July 2025 you enter and leave on Thiseio Square while the Adrianou Street entrance is rebuilt.
- Line 3 runs from Piraeus. Since October 2022 the blue line has linked Piraeus with Monastiraki and Syntagma, a second rail route that older cruise guides leave out.
- The €20 cruise fee is an island charge. Greece’s per-passenger cruise fee, in force since 21 July 2025, peaks at €20 a head at Santorini and Mykonos from June to September. Piraeus isn’t one of those two ports.
Where does your ship dock at Piraeus?
Ships tie up alongside at Piraeus, which has 11 cruise berths able to take even the largest ships, served by three passenger terminals with the Tourist Police, customs and duty-free shops inside. You’ll see them called Terminal A (Miaoulis), the main building, which OLP describes as within walking distance of Piraeus town, and Terminals B (Themistocles) and C (Alkimos). Your ship’s daily programme or port sheet names yours, and on a DIY day it’s the most useful line on the page.
From Terminal A, OLP puts the metro station about 1.3 km away: 20 minutes along the harbour front at an easy pace, longer when the crossings are busy. If your ship lies at an outer berth, OLP’s free shuttle bus runs between the ships and the passenger terminals; take it rather than walking the length of a working quay. Piraeus station is the terminus of Line 1 and a stop on Line 3, and Line 3 carries on one stop further into town to Dimotiko Theatro, named after the Municipal Theatre. Depending on your berth that can be the shorter walk, so look at both on a map before you set off.
Piraeus is a separate city and a busy one: around 20 million passengers a year use the port, by the City of Athens’ count. Its gates, ferry quays and layout are in our Piraeus port guide; this page sticks to the Acropolis and back.
Save two numbers before you go ashore: your cruise line’s port agent, from the daily programme or the excursion desk, and the Tourist Police on 1571. OLP also lists a Tourist Police office in the cruise terminal on +30 210 4290664. If you’re running late, the port agent is the person who can get a message to the ship.
How do you get from the cruise port to the Acropolis?
There are five realistic ways, and for most people the answer is the metro. It’s cheap, it can’t get stuck in afternoon traffic, and both lines from Piraeus leave you about a kilometre’s walk from the Acropolis entrance. Taxis suit groups of three or four, anyone who finds stairs hard and strike days.
| Option | Cost | The journey | Our take |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metro Line 1 (green) | €1.20 a person | Piraeus to Thissio or Monastiraki, no change | The default: cheap, traffic-proof and the handiest for the Acropolis entrance |
| Metro Line 3 (blue) | €1.20 a person | Piraeus to Syntagma in about 20 minutes, via Monastiraki | Best if Syntagma or the Acropolis Museum comes first |
| Taxi or ride-hailing app | Around €25 a car to the centre, on the meter | Door to door, traffic permitting | Worth it for three or four people, limited mobility or a strike day |
| X80 express bus | Its own ticket; the €1.20 ticket isn’t valid | Piraeus to the Acropolis and Syntagma, every 30 minutes in season | Handy from Terminal A if it’s running; check the season first |
| Bus 040 | €1.20 a person | Piraeus to Syntagma, 24 hours a day | Slow; a fallback, not a plan |
Metro Line 1: the default
€1.20, no change, six stops to Thissio. Line 1, the green line, is the old Piraeus-Kifisia railway, running above ground for most of the way into town, and it goes straight through Thissio (also spelled Thiseio) and Monastiraki. Aim for Thissio. From the station, the pedestrian street Apostolou Pavlou climbs under the trees towards the Acropolis’s main west entrance, passing the Ancient Agora’s gate on the way. Monastiraki, one stop further, suits you better if you want Plaka or an early lunch first.
Buy tickets from the machines before you go through the gates; you can pay by contactless card. Or skip the machines: as of September 2026, tapping a contactless Visa or Mastercard, or a phone, at the gates on the way in and out charges €1.20 a journey, the same as a ticket. A 90-minute ticket costs €1.20, so buy one for each direction (€2.40), or load two trips onto a single ATH.ENA ticket for €2.30. The 24-hour ticket at €4.10 only pays off from the fourth ride, which a cruise day rarely needs. Validate at the gate and keep the ticket for the whole trip; our Athens metro guide explains the machines and gates. The UK Foreign Office warns that thefts of wallets, passports and bags are common on the metro, and a packed Line 1 carriage of day visitors is exactly that setting: wear your backpack on your front and keep cruise card, phone and cash in different pockets.
Plan it: Piraeus to Thissio, six stops on Line 1; €1.20 each way; allow 45 minutes from Piraeus station to the Acropolis ticket gate, walk included; best for most DIY days.
Metro Line 3: when Syntagma or the museum comes first
€1.20, about 20 minutes to Syntagma. The blue line reached Piraeus in October 2022, and the City of Athens puts the ride from Piraeus to Syntagma at 20 minutes. It stops at Monastiraki on the way, so for the Plaka side of the Acropolis it’s as good as Line 1. Take it if you want the Changing of the Guard at Syntagma first, or change at Syntagma to Line 2 for Akropoli, the station beside the Acropolis Museum. Heading back, board a train for Dimotiko Theatro, the terminus one stop beyond Piraeus.
Taxi or app: worth it for three or four
Around €25 a car to the centre, on the meter. Athens’s flat taxi fares cover the airport and the city centre, not Piraeus, so the meter decides, and the City of Athens visitor guide puts a Piraeus-to-centre trip at around €25. The same guide tells you to check the meter is switched on as soon as you sit down. Taxis wait at the port, especially in summer, but in high season you may have to queue. The UK Foreign Office suggests hailing apps such as Uber or Free Now, which supply licensed cabs, and an app booking leaves you a record of the trip if you leave something behind.
Verdict: for two people the metro wins on cost, and in afternoon traffic it’s the more predictable of the two. For four, a taxi works out at roughly €6 a head each way against €1.20: a premium worth paying for small children, bad knees or a strike, and not otherwise.
The X80 express: a seasonal shortcut
Every 30 minutes from 07:00 to 21:30, May to October, on its own ticket. The X80 is OASA’s express from Piraeus via the Acropolis to Syntagma, and OLP’s cruise page lists it among the buses from Akti Xaveriou on the cruise side of the harbour. The timetable above is the City of Athens guide’s. OASA relaunched the line on 24 May 2025, a sign that it comes and goes with the cruise season, so check oasa.gr before you rely on it. The €1.20 ticket isn’t valid on it.
Verdict: handy from Terminal A if you’d rather not walk to the metro, but it shares the roads with the taxis, so we wouldn’t trust it for the run back on a tight afternoon.
Bus 040: the round-the-clock fallback
€1.20, 24 hours a day, slow. The 040 runs between Piraeus and Syntagma around the clock. It’s a city bus with city stops, so treat it as the backup for a metro stoppage or a late return after an overnight call, not as the way to start a sightseeing day.
How much time do you need before all-aboard?
Two hours. Be on the platform for a Piraeus train two hours before your all-aboard time, or two and a quarter if your ship is at Terminal B or C. That sounds excessive for a 20-minute ride, and on a good day it is. The rule isn’t built for the good day. It’s built for the day a train stops between stations for ten minutes, the port shuttle has just pulled away and the security queue runs out of the door.
Work from the all-aboard time in the ship’s daily programme, never the sailing time, and be sure which clock it’s on, because a ship’s time and Athens time aren’t always the same. Greek clocks go back an hour at 04:00 on Sunday 25 October 2026, exactly the kind of morning when a mismatch catches people out. Check your phone against the ship’s clocks before you go ashore, and if they disagree, go by the ship.
| Leg, counted back from all-aboard | Terminal A | Terminals B and C |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal and ship security | 15 minutes | 15 minutes |
| Piraeus station to your terminal, on foot or by port shuttle | 25 minutes | 40 minutes |
| Train from Monastiraki, Thissio or Syntagma | 25 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Waiting on the platform | 10 minutes | 10 minutes |
| Contingency: a stalled train, a strike rumour, a wrong exit | 45 minutes | 45 minutes |
| On the platform by | 2 hours before all-aboard | 2 hours 15 minutes before |
Then add the time it takes you to reach that platform. From the Acropolis gate, the walk down to Thissio or Monastiraki takes 15 to 20 minutes. From the Acropolis Museum, Akropoli station is steps away, and one stop on Line 2 to Syntagma puts you on Line 3. With a 17:30 all-aboard at Terminal A, that means walking out of the museum by about 15:10.
- Before you go ashore: note the all-aboard time and its clock, save the port agent’s number and photograph your terminal’s sign.
- Two alarms: one 30 minutes before your platform time, one at it. When the first goes off, stop, wherever you are.
- The platform: on Line 1, take any train signed Piraeus; on Line 3, a train for Dimotiko Theatro, getting off at whichever stop is nearer your berth.
- Piraeus: walk the harbour front to Terminal A, or use the port’s free shuttle where it runs.
- The terminal: cruise card and photo ID ready for security, with the best part of an hour in hand.
Verdict: the two-hour rule costs you a museum gallery or a second coffee. Missing the ship means getting yourself to its next port, and on a DIY day that bill is almost certainly yours.
One day in Athens from the cruise port: a timed plan
Here’s the day for a typical call: alongside at 07:00, all-aboard at 17:30, ship at Terminal A. If your times differ, shift every row. It covers the Acropolis, its museum and a sit-down lunch, with the Ancient Agora as an optional extra.
| Time | What you’re doing | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 07:45 | Off the ship, walk to Piraeus station | Buy two 90-minute tickets (€2.40) |
| 08:15 | Line 1 to Thissio | Six stops |
| 08:40 | Walk up Apostolou Pavlou to the west entrance | Eat beforehand: food isn’t allowed on the site |
| 09:00 | The Acropolis, on your timed slot | 90 minutes to 2 hours on top |
| 11:00 | Down the south side to the Acropolis Museum | About five minutes from the South Exit |
| 11:10 | Acropolis Museum | 90 minutes; bags are X-rayed at the door |
| 12:45 | Lunch in Makrygianni or Plaka | Sit down properly; the afternoon is mostly walking |
| 14:00 | Plaka to Monastiraki on foot, or the Ancient Agora | The Agora’s only gate is by Thissio station |
| 15:30 | On the platform at Monastiraki or Thissio | Your two-hour mark |
| 16:30 | Back at the terminal | 45 minutes of slack you’ll usually not need |
Two rows do the heavy lifting: the 09:00 slot keeps you ahead of the heat, and the 15:30 platform time is fixed. Everything in between can flex. The full city version of this day, with dinner and sunset, is our one day in Athens itinerary for visitors staying in the centre.
Short call: under six hours ashore
Drop the museum and the lunch, book the earliest slot you can reach and go straight back afterwards. Frankly, under six hours the ship’s excursion earns its price: the coach drives to the gate, the guide holds the tickets, and a late coach is the ship’s problem rather than yours.
Long call or overnight
With ten hours or an evening in port, add the Ancient Agora and the Changing of the Guard. On a Friday the Acropolis Museum stays open until 22:00, which turns an overnight call into a very good evening.
Acropolis tickets and time slots for cruise passengers
Buy before you sail if you can. The Acropolis costs €30 (reduced €15) in every month, entry is by timed slot, and the Ministry of Culture sells tickets online through its Hellenic Heritage platform at tickets.hh.gr; the older hhticket.gr address runs as the same service. The ticket office still sells on the day, but on a cruise day that queue is time you don’t have, and your slot may be gone. There’s no official skip-the-line ticket: resellers using the phrase are selling a tour with a ticket inside it.
Pick the earliest slot you can realistically reach, with half an hour of slack for a slow gangway: from a 07:00 arrival, that’s 09:00 or 09:30. The ticket is single-entry, too. Leave the Acropolis or the South Slope and the same ticket won’t let you back in, so eat, drink and sort everything else out before you go through the gate. After the Beulé Gate, signs send you down the south side to the South Exit, a few minutes from the museum, which is why the museum makes such an easy second stop.
| When | Acropolis opening hours | Last entry |
|---|---|---|
| Summer schedule | 08:00-20:00 | 19:30 |
| 1-15 October | 08:00-18:30 | 18:00 |
| 16-31 October | 08:00-18:00 | 17:30 |
| Winter schedule, from November | 08:00-17:00 | 16:30 |
Closing times matter less to a cruise passenger than the heat. In heatwaves the Ministry closes the Acropolis through the hottest part of the day: on 8 July 2025 it stayed shut until 17:00, after similar closures in 2023 and 2024. For a summer call that’s the biggest single risk to a DIY plan, and one more reason to take the first slot you can reach. By early afternoon in July the top of the rock has no shade worth the name. If the hill does close, the Acropolis Museum, indoors at the foot of the south slope, is the fallback.
Check the calendar as well. On 28 October, a national holiday, the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora and the Acropolis Museum are all free, and the crowds follow. On Orthodox Easter Sunday and 1 May the Ministry’s sites close, and so does the Acropolis Museum, so a port day on either needs a different plan. Our complete Acropolis guide covers the monuments, the South Slope and who qualifies for the reduced ticket.
What else fits into a cruise day?
After the Acropolis you’ll have two or three hours, three and a half at most. This is how we’d rank the options for a port day, including the two we’d leave for another trip.
1. The Acropolis Museum
€20, 90 minutes, five minutes from the South Exit. It holds the sculpture from the hill you’ve just climbed, and seeing the originals an hour after standing beside the temples is the best pairing Athens offers a short visit. The top-floor Parthenon Gallery is glass-walled and lined up with the temple, with the frieze laid out in sequence and casts standing in for the pieces held abroad. Bags are X-rayed at the entrance, and backpacks and bulky items go to the ground-floor cloakroom, so travel light.
Plan it: €20 (reduced €10, at the ticket desk only); to 31 October, Monday 09:00-17:00 and Tuesday-Sunday 09:00-20:00 (Friday to 22:00); from 1 November, Monday-Thursday 09:00-17:00, Friday 09:00-22:00, weekends 09:00-20:00; Akropoli (Line 2), steps away; allow 90 minutes; best for everyone.
2. The Ancient Agora
€20, an hour, beside Thissio station. The marketplace and civic centre of the ancient city spreads below the Acropolis’s north-west slope, with the Temple of Hephaestus, one of the best-preserved Greek temples anywhere, on the low hill at its western edge. The ticket includes the museum in the rebuilt Stoa of Attalos, though its upper-floor exhibition and the Church of the Holy Apostles have been closed since 1 November 2025. Since 1 July 2025 the only way in and out is the gate on Thiseio Square, which suits a cruise day nicely: finish here and you’re a few minutes from a Line 1 train to Piraeus.
Plan it: €20 (reduced €10), including the Stoa of Attalos museum; 1-15 October 08:00-18:00 (last entry 17:30), 16-31 October 08:00-17:30 (last entry 17:00), winter 08:00-16:30; Thissio (Line 1); allow an hour; best for a long call.
Verdict: worth it on an eight-hour call if your legs agree. On a short one, skip it without guilt.
3. Lunch in Plaka and the walk to Monastiraki
Free to wander, about an hour. The old quarter wraps around the north and east slopes of the Acropolis, and its lanes are the natural route from the museum to your train. Eat a proper lunch here rather than a snack on the hill. The tavernas on the busiest lanes tend to charge for the passing trade; walk a street or two uphill, or eat in Makrygianni near the museum, and the same money usually buys a better meal. End at Monastiraki Square, where the station serves both Line 1 and Line 3 back to Piraeus.
Plan it: free; Monastiraki (Lines 1 and 3) at the end; allow an hour for lunch and 15 minutes for the walk; best for the last stretch before your platform time.
4. The Changing of the Guard at Syntagma
Free, on the hour. Two Evzones of the Presidential Guard stand at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of Parliament, and they change every hour. On Sundays at 11:00 the full ceremony brings out the whole guard and a band, which clashes with the best Acropolis hours, so on a Sunday call you’ll have to choose. Syntagma is on Line 3, so an hourly change can be your last stop before the train to Piraeus. Avoid the square if a demonstration is under way: the UK Foreign Office names Syntagma as the usual venue.
Plan it: free; every hour, with the full ceremony on Sundays at 11:00; Syntagma (Lines 2 and 3); allow 20 minutes; best as the final stop on a Line 3 day.
5. The Temple of Olympian Zeus
€20, 30 minutes. The surviving columns of one of the ancient world’s largest temples stand in a fenced site south-east of the Acropolis.
Verdict: skip it on a cruise day. The columns are plain to see from the street and from the Acropolis, €20 buys a closer look rather than a different experience, and the area around Hadrian’s Arch has been closed since 1 April 2026 for roadworks on Vasilissis Olgas Avenue.
6. The Panathenaic Stadium
Open daily 08:00-19:00 in late September 2026, 30 minutes plus the walk. The marble stadium of the 1896 Olympics is a fine sight, but it sits east of the Olympieion, off the loop between the Acropolis, Plaka and your train, and it closes for events, which it posts on its website.
Verdict: leave it for a longer stay. On a cruise day it’s the detour most likely to turn a relaxed return into a rushed one.
DIY or the ship’s excursion: which is better?
Price the DIY day first. Here’s what it costs per adult at 2026 prices, to hold against the figure in your ship’s excursion brochure.
| DIY item | Cost per adult |
|---|---|
| Metro, Piraeus to the centre and back | €2.40 (€2.30 as a two-trip load) |
| Acropolis timed ticket | €30 |
| Acropolis Museum | €20 |
| Ancient Agora, optional | €20 |
| Total, before lunch | €52.40, or €72.40 with the Agora |
| Taxi instead of the metro | Around €50 a car for the round trip, on the meter |
The gap between that total and the brochure price pays for three things: a seat on a coach the ship is expecting back, a guide, and not having to watch the clock. Those are real services, and choosing them isn’t a failure of nerve.
Book the ship’s excursion if you have under six hours ashore, a transport strike is announced for your port day, anyone in your group struggles with steep, uneven and often slippery marble paths (which is what the climb to the Parthenon is), or you know the clock would spoil the day for you. Go DIY if you have seven hours or more, you’re happy on a metro and you’d rather set your own pace than a group’s.
The middle way is a private driver booked directly (the City of Athens visitor guide lists pick-up services for port arrivals). Agree the return time in writing: a private tour running late is still your problem, not the ship’s.
Verdict: on a normal eight-hour call with no strike, DIY is cheaper and better paced. On a short call, a strike day or with limited mobility, the excursion is money well spent.
Starting or ending your cruise at Piraeus?
If Piraeus is where your cruise starts or finishes, the day has a different shape, and bags are the first problem. In Town Check In, inside the Agios Dionysios passenger terminal at Gate E3 on the ferry side of the port, stores luggage (Monday-Friday 06:00-22:00, weekends and public holidays 08:00-16:00), and our guide to luggage storage in Athens compares the lockers and staffed options in town. For the transfer, our airport to Piraeus guide covers the trip in both directions, and if a ferry comes next, onward travel from Athens covers the islands. With two days or more on land, pick one of our Athens itinerary plans instead.
Athens Cruise Port FAQ
How far is the Athens cruise port from the Acropolis?
Piraeus is about 10 km southwest of central Athens, so walking isn’t realistic. By metro it’s six stops on Line 1 from Piraeus to Thissio, then about a kilometre uphill on foot to the Acropolis entrance. Allow an hour from the gangway to the ticket gate, including the walk to Piraeus station, and more from Terminal B or C.
How many hours do you need in Athens from a cruise ship?
Six hours ashore is the minimum for the Acropolis alone with a safe return, and eight covers the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum and lunch without rushing. With less than six, book the ship’s excursion. Whatever the length, count back from the all-aboard time and be on a Piraeus-bound platform two hours before it.
Which metro line goes from Piraeus to the Acropolis?
Line 1, the green line, runs from Piraeus to Thissio and Monastiraki without a change, and Thissio is the handiest stop for the main entrance. Line 3, the blue line, runs from Piraeus through Monastiraki to Syntagma. Akropoli station, beside the Acropolis Museum, is on Line 2, a change at Syntagma. A 90-minute ticket costs €1.20.
How much is a taxi from Piraeus cruise port to the Acropolis?
Taxis from Piraeus run on the meter, because Athens’s flat fares only cover the airport and the city centre. The City of Athens visitor guide puts Piraeus to the centre at around €25 a car, with traffic deciding the rest. Check the meter is switched on when you set off, or book through an app such as Uber or Free Now.
Should you book Acropolis tickets before your cruise?
Yes, if you can. Entry is by timed slot at €30 (reduced €15), sold at the ticket office and online through the Ministry of Culture’s Hellenic Heritage platform at tickets.hh.gr, which also still answers at hhticket.gr. Booking ahead secures an early slot and skips the ticket-office queue.
What happens if there’s a metro strike on your port day?
Greek strikes are sometimes called at short notice and can stop buses and trains, so ask at the excursion desk the evening before. If the metro is out, a taxi is the DIY option, with queues and slower roads, and on a short call the ship’s excursion is the safer choice. Either way, add at least half an hour to your buffer.
How do you get from the cruise port to Athens airport?
The X96 express bus links Piraeus and the airport around the clock, and Line 3 airport trains run from Piraeus in about an hour. A taxi runs on the meter, as the flat fares only cover the airport and central Athens. Our guide to the airport and Piraeus transfer compares the options in both directions.
Related Athens Guides
- One Day in Athens Itinerary: the full day from the city centre, with dinner and sunset.
- Piraeus Port Guide: gates, ferry quays and how the port fits together.
- The Complete Acropolis Guide: monuments, tickets and the South Slope.
- Athens Metro Guide: lines, tickets and the gates, explained.
- Athens Airport to Piraeus Port: the transfer on the first or last day of your cruise.
- Luggage Storage in Athens: where to leave bags between the ship and your flight.
Sources and How We Checked
We checked every price, time and rule on this page on 26 September 2026 against the official sources below, compiled it from them rather than from other travel lists, and don’t claim a first-hand visit.
- Piraeus Port Authority (OLP): Cruise Terminal (berths, terminals, free shuttle, buses and phone numbers)
- City of Athens visitor guide: Coming from the Port (metro, X80, bus 040 and taxis)
- OASA: ticket prices and the ATH.ENA ticket
- Hellenic Ministry of Culture: the Acropolis, Ancient Agora and Olympieion pages, and online tickets at tickets.hh.gr
- Acropolis Museum: Plan your visit
- Panathenaic Stadium: official site
- UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Greece safety and security
Athens Tourism Guide is an independent publication. We are not affiliated with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, OASA, the Greek National Tourism Organisation or any business named here, and no business paid to be included.
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- Line 1 train at Kallithea: photo by Texniths, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Dionysiou Areopagitou and the Acropolis: photo by George E. Koronaios, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- The Propylaea of the Acropolis: photo by George E. Koronaios, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Temple of Hephaestus from the Ancient Agora: photo by Jakub Hałun, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0)
- Monastiraki Square below the Acropolis: photo by C messier, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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