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Athens Greece Travel | Excursions, Sightseeing, Driving Routes in Athens Greece - Auto Club Car Rental Athens Greece |
Driving around Athens and Attica, touring the sites and admiring the scenery can be a wonderful experience. Athens is an exciting city, visited by thousands of people from all over the globe every year. Ancient monuments, old neighborhoods, posh suburbs, and long beaches; you will see all these and more in your Auto Club Athens Car Rental vehicle. On this page you are provided with useful travel information about driving routes, sightseeing and excursions in Athens and Attica.
Athens Sightseeing
Athens is celebrated for its historical sites and monuments, which date back to ancient times. On the other hand, there are also a plethora of modern buildings that one should visit while touring Athens.
The most famous, of course, is the Acropolis Hill, with its breathtaking monuments, such as the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, the Propylaea, the Ancient Agora, the Theater of Dionysus and the Herod Atticus Odeon. Close to the Athens Acropolis are the Areios Pagos Rock and the Pnyx.
Around Syntagma Square, the most central point in the city of Athens, we recommend visiting the Olympeion Site, Zappeion Hall, the Parliament Building and the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, which is guarded by the Evzone Soldiers. Behind Zappeion Hall is the Panathenaic Marble Stadium, where the first modern Olympic Games took place in 1896. Below Syntagma Square and near the Acropolis Hill are the old neighborhoods of Plaka, Psyri and Thisseion, which are ideal for exploration and a really good meal.
Along Panepistimiou Street, one of the main streets in the city of Athens, you can admire the triad of neoclassical buildings: the Library, the Academy and the University. The center of Athens is packed with marvellous museums, such as the Acropolis Museum and the Ancient Agora Museum, located on the top or the slopes of the hill, the National Archaeological Museum, the Byzantine Museum, the Goulandris Cycladic Art Museum, the National Historical Museum, the Numismatic Museum, and the War Museum. Finally, visits to the new ‘Megaro Moussikis’ Music Hall and Lycabettus Hill are a must.
The suburbs of Athens offer excellent sightseeing, such as the Nautical Museum, the ‘Averof’ Battleship and charming seaside areas of Mikrolimano, Kastela, and Freattyda in Piraeus, the Olympic Stadium and Athletic Facilities in Maroussi, the Goulandris Natural History Museum in Kifissia. Further outside Athens city, we suggest visiting the amazing ancient sites and their museums in Elefsina, Vravrona, and Marathon, as well as the impressive Temple of Poseidon in Sounion. |
Beaches in Attica Greece
While driving in your Auto Club rental car, you can travel to the coastal areas of Attica, where you will come across some very lovely beaches. Close to the center of Athens are the beaches on the southern coast, such as Alimos, Glyfada, Kavouri, Vouliagmeni, Voula, Varkiza, Lagonisi, Anavissos, Sounion and Saronida, many of which are lined with clubs and beach bars. You may also like to visit the beaches on the eastern coast of Attica, including the popular beaches of Rafina, Nea Makri, Porto Rafti, Avlaki, Loutsa, Schinias, Mati, Oropos and Chalkoutsi. Further away, towards the prefecture of Corinth, you will find the beautiful beaches of Alepochori, Megalo Pefko, Pachi and Kineta.
While staying in Athens Greece, we also suggest going on excursions to the nearby areas of Corinth, Nafplion, Epidaurus, Mycenae and Delphi to see the marvellous archaeological and historical sites and to admire the beautiful countryside scenery of Greece. You can also travel to the beautiful regions in Northern Greece, which have magnificent historical attractions, stunning beaches and breathtaking countryside. Both the Peloponnese and Northern Greece are accessed by the Greek National Highway network. |
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