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Athens Map, Greece

If you feel like you need some help to find your way in your destination city, you are in the right place. This Athens Map will certainly help you to seek out the best restaurants, clubs and sights in town. You want to know what is the best place for a walk? Or what you should be watching out for during your visit? Learn more about the best things to do in the city reading our travel tips and then get around in Athens with Travelgrove's map. While searching for places, you can also check some cheap flights or deals or you can take a look at our user's galleries about the city. We hope you will find our city map of Athens useful. Enjoy your trip and come back to share your travel experience about Athens!

Athens Travel Guide

The city is arced by the peaks of Parnitha, Pendéli, and the Hymettos Mountains and is only a few miles from the country’s largest seaport, Piraeus. The greater city area has a recorded population of 3.2 million. The city’s rising population density has contributed to urban problems like overcrowding, pollution and traffic. read more

Athens Sightseeing

Hadrian’s Arch Famously built by the Roman emperor Hadrian, hence the name, to separate the ancient Athens and modern Roman city. Temple of the Olympian Zeus This was built a hundred years before Acropolis was built. To this day, only the columns are left but tourists get to have the chance of touching the columns. Theater of Dionysus Location is just below Acropolis. This was built back in the 8th... read more

Athens History

Following the fall of Mycenaean civilization during the early Iron Age or around 1100 to 900 BC, the Dorians invaded Greece—to which we call Dorian Invasion. The start of historical period was around 900 to 700 BC when Greek city states start to develop—Athens, Corinth, and Sparta. People started creating pots and were brought back to writing, hence, the term historical period. It was during this time that... read more

Athens Nightlife

Visitors can experience and listen to authentic rembatika and bouzoukia music. Rembatika is defined as music of the urban poor and dispossessed, and the bouzoukia traditionally is a type of guitar usually played loudly. Guests can get a load of these interesting sounds at Stoa Athanaton, the Taximi or the Frangosyriani. read more