Private 4-hour Walking Tour of Acropolis and Acropolis Museum in Athens

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Overview

Enjoy this private 4-hour walking tour with your own private official guide and discover one of the most emblematic archaeological sites in the whole World. Your guide will meet you in front of the Acropolis Museum, or at the place nearby.

We will arrange the entrance tickets for you for both the Acropolis museum and the Acropolis slopes precinct, so your access is granted and you will skip the lines.

Your expert guide will teach you about the history and remains of the long lasting Greek civilization that gave birth to the Western world, just while you can admire them in person in the same sites where the most important rites and events of the ancient Greeks took place. There are ruins, remains, artifacts, and objects from all the periods of ancient Greece since at least 3400 years ago to know and admire.

What's Included

Entrance to Acropolis museum
Local taxes
Entrance tickets to Acropolis
Private official tour guide for 4 hours

Food and drinks
Transportation

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Meeting and Pickup

Pickup point

Dionysiou Areopagitou
Athina 117 42, Greece

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Pickup details

Your guide will meet you in front of the Acropolis Museum or at a place nearby.

Meeting point

Dionysiou Areopagitou
Athina 117 42, Greece

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Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.

What To Expect

Acropolis Museum

The new Acropolis Museum is one of the leading archaeological museums both in Athens and in the world. It houses stone and bronze sculptures from excavations on the Acropolis. The permanent exhibition is divided into five sectors depending on the origin of the pieces: - Acropolis Slopes: mostly everyday objects, reliefs and votive offerings from, pottery and decorative elements. - Archaic: works prior to the Medical Wars, such as the Moskophorus, the collection of kores, various pediments, votive figures, etc. - Parthenon: It houses the decoration of the frieze, the metopes and pediments of the Parthenon and some ancient inscriptions associated with this temple. - Propylaea, Athena Nike, Erechtheion. - 5th century BC to 5th century AD: Inscriptions, reliefs and statues of famous people, gods and heroes and other remains from the Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods.

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Acropolis

Situated in a strategic location capable of dominating every corner of the city, on a hill 156 meters above sea level, the Acropolis of Athens is the most important and best known site in all of Greece.The most famous myths of ancient Athens, its major religious festivals, the first cults and several decisive events in the history of the city are related to this sacred and formerly walled and fortified enclosure. The monuments of the Acropolis are in harmony with their natural surroundings. These unique masterpieces of ancient architecture combine different orders and styles of classical art in the most innovative way and have influenced art and culture for many centuries.The ruins of the Acropolis have been under restoration since the independence of Greece. During a visit to the Acropolis you will be transported back to the peak of ancient Greek splendor.See the following highlights of the sites you can visit all over the Acropolis slopes.

1 hour • Admission Ticket Included

Beulé Gate (Pass By)

It is the current access gate to the Acropolis, and is located west of the Propylaea. It was built in the 3rd century AD to protect the sacred precinct, possibly after the destructive invasion of the Herulians. Together with another gate located under the tower of Athena Nike, it was built into a strong fortification wall erected to the west of the Propylaea. The gate was named after the French archaeologist who investigated this area in 1852.The gate is framed to the north and south by two rectangular towers. Both the gate and the towers are made of building material reused from earlier structures, such as the choregic monument of Nikias (late 4th century BC), which stood on the southern slope of the Acropolis (today only the foundations of the monument are visible between the theater of Dionysus and the stoa of Eumenes). The votive inscription mentioning the choregic victory of Nikias Nikodemos is embedded in the wall above the epistle of the gate.

Parthenon

The Parthenon is the main building of the architectural complex of the Acropolis of Athens, as well as the greatest symbol of the beauty of classical architecture in ancient Greece.Built between 447 and 432 BC, the imposing Doric-style building was created to house a colossal sculpture of Athena Parthenos made of wood, ivory and gold, which had a height of twelve meters.

20 minutes • Admission Ticket Included

Propylaia (Pass By)

The propylaea were monumental gates, and those of the Acropolis were built on the west side of the hill, where the gate of the Mycenaean fortification used to be, by Pericles between 437 B.C. and 431 B.C. and replaced the old propylaea of the time of Pisistratus. They were covered with a giant double portico of Pentelic marble.The architect Mnesicles designed the porticoes as if they were facades of Doric temples. The outer portico has a platform on each side with three Ionic columns that supported a blue marble roof with stars.The two fronts have a Doric facade, hexastyle, with the central intercolumnium wider, giving way to the roadway.The access wall is articulated in five linteled openings arranged in decreasing order. Flanking the access staircase, there is a base on which stands the temple of Athena Nike.

Temple of Athena Nike

Built between 426 and 421 BC to replace older temples whose remains are preserved inside the bastion.The small Ionic temple had a frieze carved in relief with different thematic representations on each side. The east side depicted a gathering of gods around Zeus enthroned, while the other sides featured scenes of warfare between Greeks and Persians or Greeks with other Greeks. The south side depicted the victorious battle of the Greeks against the Persians at Marathon in 490 BC, led by the Athenians. Few sculptural remains of the pediments of the temple are preserved.