Athens, Greece
Cities have personality, they have style and attitude, but mostly they have a pulse. Each one its own, so similar with the rest, but at the same time as unique as the fingertips. They are like huge beating hearts that beat on the rhythm of a mystic melody.
In order to listen to her song you have to live the city, not just live in the city, but to become part of her, to dissolve and recombine yourself inside the city, to walk through its hidden paths. Sometimes, if you allow it to happen, if you leave your senses free and your mind open, you may listen to the city’s song even if you are getting to know her simply as a visitor.
In the beginning it will reach your ears as a whisper, as an indistinct sound, as words hard to understand. If you really want everything to start having a meaning and to learn the stories through the words, then try to approach her people. Athens is not the fairy tale princess who attracts you with her flawless beauty and virtue.
Immerse yourself in the city’s ancient history while also learning about Athens as it is today on this jam-packed Athens tour.Walk along streets lined with historical sites, from the famous to the unknown..Learn about Athens’ history and modern-day life from a local perspective instead of a guidebook.
Witness the Greek changing of the guard
Explore secret corners of the city that you’d never find on your own
She is Kirki the mythical witch, with her dark beauty, demanding, selfish, hard and seductive. Her most powerful allures are the ones that you can’t see at first sight. Behind the mask of seduction she hides her age, the marks that cruelly time and history left on her. Ancient history, glorious and, at the same time, sinful, full of pride and guilt, complex, but extremely attractive.
But above all a living history, with a continuity that reaches today. Because Athens is not only the thrilling rock of Acropolis that prevails in the heart of the city and surrounds everything with its magic energy. Or the ancient rocks with their incomparable beauty, the buildings, the statues, the civilization and the light of the past. Athens is the “now” and the “today”.
It’s the different ideas that are born and develop among the young group of people, the concerns, the agonies, the dreams, the hopes and the fears that incarnate through art and the multiple ways of her expressions. It’s the classic and the original, the groundbreaking and the simple- because each one is born inside the other in an everlasting pregnancy.
It’s the music, the dancing, the taste, the smells, the endless conversations, and the nights out, the voices, the laughs and the tears of her people. Life in this city resists.
Dive deep into the history of the ancient city of Athens, with a local to guide you.
Explore the city’s many markets and legendary traditions within
Step back in time and get insider knowledge on the city’s famous landmarks
Discover Athens’ more recent history and architecture from the 17th and 18th centuries
Wander the walls of the infamous Athens Acropolis and learn about the temples from your guide
It is like water, however many times you try to stop its course, however you try to put walls in front of it, it will find even a tiny crack to slip to
freedom.
Sometimes its urge will be uncontrolled and like a torrent will carry away everything…
Athens-Kirki will lure you and if you take it she will take you on a trip to the world of contradictions and oppositions, where you can possibly live everything.
Discover the traditional tastes and fresh flavours of Athens. Delight your senses in Athens’ Central Market. Learn all about Athens’ culinary culture from a local guide. Chat with a local deli owner about his specialities and fresh produce
Drama and comedy, claustrophobic confinement and wild liberation, deep sadness and mad happiness. Everything there, everything here, strongly braided between them in a mad, bacchanalian dance.
Something like love…
Photos by our photographers
Nikoleta Zavou
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and Aggelos Karagiannis
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