Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #3 in Athens, Greece

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Number of sights 13 sights
Distance 6.2 km
Ascend 175 m
Descend 255 m

Explore Athens in Greece with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in AthensIndividual Sights in Athens

Sight 1: Numismatic Museum

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The Numismatic Museum of Athens is one of the most important museums in Greece and it houses a collection of over 500,000 coins, medals, gems, weights, stamps and related artefacts from 1400BC to modern times. The collection constitutes one of the richest in the world, paralleled by those of the British Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Bode Museum in Berlin, and the American Numismatic Society in New York. The museum itself is housed in the mansion of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, formally known as Iliou Melathron.

Wikipedia: Numismatic Museum of Athens (EN)

274 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 2: Theodoros Kolokotronis

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Theodoros Kolokotronis

Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greek general and the pre-eminent leader of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1829) against the Ottoman Empire.

Wikipedia: Theodoros Kolokotronis (EN)

173 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: National Historic Museum

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National Historic Museum Reinhard Dietrich / CC BY-SA 3.0

The National Historical Museum is a historical museum in Athens. Founded in 1882, is the oldest of its kind in Greece. It is located in the Old Parliament House at Stadiou Street in Athens, which housed the Hellenic Parliament from 1875 until 1932. A branch of the National History Museum has been organized and operated there since 2001.

Wikipedia: National Historical Museum, Athens (EN), Website

475 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 4: Saint George Karytsis

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Agios Georgios tou Karykis or Karytsi is a Christian church in Athens, Greece. The original medieval church was destroyed during the revolution of 1821 and was roughly rebuilt under King Otto. It was then reconstructed from the ground up and with larger dimensions in 1845-1849, designed by Lysandros Kaftanzoglou. He did not retain any trace of the old temple. The architecture of today's church is of Greek Byzantine style, while it is characterized by the distinct central pillar of gray marble, on top of which there is a white bell tower. In 1849 the dome collapsed and struts were added to the side walls for additional support.

Wikipedia: Άγιος Γεώργιος του Καρύκη (EL)

749 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 5: Psiri

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The small district of Psirri is located in the historic center of Athens and is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city. It spreads around Psirri Square or Heroes Square, leading the five major roads of the district: Miaouli Street, Karaiskaki Street, Agioi Anargyroi Street, Aristophanes Street and Aeschylou Street.

Wikipedia: Ψυρή (EL)

146 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Embros

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The theater in the old printing house of the front or EMPROS Theater is a theatrical site in the Psiri district of the Municipality of Athens, in a preserved building built in the 1930s, which initially served as a printing house in the newspaper EMPROS. From 1988 to 2007 it operated for the first time as the theater. Although it belonged to the Ministry of Culture, in 2011 it was occupied by the artistic "Mavili Movement" and has since been used as a self -managed theater. In March 2022 the site was granted by the Public Real Estate Company to the Municipality of Athens and continues to operate as a self -managed space.

Wikipedia: Θέατρο Εμπρός (EL)

1226 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 7: Pnyx

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The Pnyx is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC, the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx to host their popular assemblies, thus making the hill one of the earliest and most important sites in the creation of democracy.

Wikipedia: Pnyx (EN)

158 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 8: Εθνικό Αστεροσκοπείο Αθηνών

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The National Observatory of Athens is a research institute in Athens, Greece. Founded in 1842, it is the oldest research foundation in Greece. The Observatory was the first scientific research institute built after Greece became independent in 1829, and one of the oldest research institutes in Southern Europe. It was built around the same period as the United States Naval Observatory.

Wikipedia: National Observatory of Athens (EN)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 9: Λόφος Νυμφών

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Λόφος Νυμφών

Hill of the Nymphs or Hill of the Observatory is a rocky hill of Athens, located opposite the Temple of Hephaestus.

Wikipedia: Λόφος Νυμφών (EL)

1212 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 10: Dipylon gate

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Dipylon gateGiovanni Dall'Orto / Attribution

The Dipylon was the main gate in the city wall of Classical Athens. Located in the modern suburb of Kerameikos, it led to the namesake ancient cemetery, and to the roads connecting Athens with the rest of Greece. The gate was of major ceremonial significance as the starting point of the procession of the Great Panathenaea, and accordingly it was a large, monumental structure, "the largest gate of the ancient world". Erected in 478 BC as part of Themistocles' fortification of Athens and rebuilt in the 300s BC, it remained standing and in use until the 3rd century AD.

Wikipedia: Dipylon (EN)

20 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 11: Πομπείον

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ΠομπείονGiovanni Dall'Orto / Attribution

The Pompeion was a large building of ancient Athens located between the Dipylon and the Holy Gate, west of the Ancient Agora, the first building of the inner Kerameikos. This building was built around the beginning of the 4th century BC, while its construction seems to have begun in the 5th century BC.

Wikipedia: Πομπείον (EL)

287 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 12: Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

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Kerameikos Archaeological Museum

The Kerameikos Archaeological Museum is located in Kerameikos, Athens, Greece and was built in 1937. It houses many important early Geometric art pieces that date as far back as 860 BC. It was expanded in the 1960s by the Boehringer brothers of Boehringer Ingelheim fame. Its official address is Ermou, Athens 125, Greece.

Wikipedia: Kerameikos Archaeological Museum (EN)

1241 meters / 15 minutes

Sight 13: Alexander Fleming

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Alexander Fleming

Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist, best known for discovering the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance, which he named penicillin. His discovery in 1928 of what was later named benzylpenicillin from the mould Penicillium rubens has been described as the "single greatest victory ever achieved over disease". For this discovery, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

Wikipedia: Alexander Fleming (EN)

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