Athens travel guide
Athens is a place of great cultural interest, as well as a vivid and modern city. The harmonious and perfectly balanced fitting between the old and the new age makes this city unique. Both sides of Athens are extremely appealing to tourists. There are many interesting museums to visit and various cultural activities to attend to, that cater for all tastes. Travelers attracted to Athens by an interest in the history of the ancient world’s cultural capital have many choices to make.
The Acropolis of Athens was both a fortress and a sanctuary mainly for the worship of the goddess protecting the city, goddess Athena, after whom the city was named.
The capital of Greece, despite its actual disorganized appearances, has many things to offer to the visitor. Our portal site proposes a large range of information: athens, history, geography, ancient sites, churches, map, beaches, pictures, restaurants, car rentals and much more such as a large range of hotels.
FLIGHTS TO ATHENS
The easiest way to get to Athens is to fly. If you are coming from the USA there are non-stop flights from New York by Delta and Olympic and then a dozen other airlines that you have to connect somewhere in Europe. David Econopouly at GREECEFLIGHTS specializes in finding the best rates to Greece and knows all the secrets for finding cheap flights. Did you know that there are a certain number of cheap tickets on almost every flight? The thing is that once these tickets are sold that’s it and you move up to the more expensive fares.
The trick is knowing which flights have the cheap tickets and how many there are. That is why it is so difficult to find cheap tickets when you use a discount on-line booking system. Because if you are looking for cheap seats for a June 20th flight and there are none, the system won’t tell you that there are 20 cheap seats the very next day. One of the things David does is find out which days there are cheap tickets. Yes there is actually a human being at the other end of GreeceFlights responding to each and every e-mail and by David’s count he answered 13,000 e-mails last year.
By Car, Train and Ferry
Many people coming from Europe and Scandinavia drive or take a train to one of the coast cities of Italy where they can catch a ferry to Greece. The shortest ferry trip is from Brindisi and that is where most of the boats leave from, sometimes six a day. A slow ferry will take about 15 hours to Patras and 8 hours to Corfu. There are several boats a day. There are also ferries from Bari which take a little longer. The Ancona ferries take about 22 hours to Patras. There are ferries from Venice and Trieste too and these take about 36 hours. I have taken the ferries from Brindisi and Ancona.
From Patras there is a bus and a train that leave from where the boats dock. The train is slower than the bus. There should be bus info on the ferry but if you book in advance ask for the info from the travel agency. If you get off the ferry in Corfu you can fly to Athens or take the bus by way of Igoumounitsa.
