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A private city highlights tour covering real Plaka, Syntagma Square, and the Acropolis.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Plaka, Syntagma Square, and the genuine Acropolis.
This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Plaka's genuine old-town lanes, Syntagma Square, and the Acropolis.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Hotel pickup in Athens.
Genuine historic Athens neighborhood.
A real, genuine central Athens landmark.
No other travelers.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
A private tour for your group only, real stops at Plaka, Syntagma Square, and the genuine Acropolis. This is a private tour for your group only. Real stops include Plaka's genuine old-town lanes, Syntagma Square, and the Acropolis.
Plaka is widely described as Athens's oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood, with traces of settlement going back to the Neolithic period and more than 3,000 years of continuous habitation on the same ground — much of it built directly over, and among, the ruins of the Ancient Agora. Locals sometimes call it the "Neighborhood of the Gods" for its position right beneath the Acropolis. During the centuries of Ottoman rule it was known as the Turkish quarter of Athens, home to the city's Ottoman governor; it was largely abandoned after heavy fighting in 1826 during the Greek War of Independence, then repopulated once King Otto made Athens the capital of the new Greek state in 1834. Most of the neoclassical buildings you'll walk past today date from that 19th-century rebuilding, not from antiquity itself.
Tucked into Plaka's upper slopes, on the northeast side of the Acropolis, is the tiny sub-neighborhood of Anafiotika — a pocket of whitewashed, Cycladic-style houses that feels transplanted from a Greek island. It was built, quite literally overnight in places, by construction workers from the island of Anafi who came to Athens in the 1830s to work on King Otto's new palace; taking advantage of an old law that a house completed between sunset and sunrise became the builder's property, they threw up homes on the steep hillside in the same style as their home island. Only around 45 of these houses remain today.
Syntagma Square takes its name — "Constitution Square" — from the constitution King Otto was forced to grant after a popular uprising on 3 September 1843; the Old Royal Palace facing the square, now the home of the Greek Parliament since 1934, is where that constitution was signed. In front of the Parliament building stands the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, guarded around the clock by the Evzones, the ceremonial Presidential Guard whose distinctive kilted uniform descends from the clothing worn by Greek independence fighters. The changing of the guard happens every hour, with a larger, more elaborate ceremony — a full guard detachment and military band — on Sunday mornings.
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