Athens, Greece

Journeys through here in Athens

Every curated route, theme and story in the Atlas that passes through Athens. None of them was written to fill this page.

3 curated routes through Athens, drawn end to end on the same projection as every other map here. Drawn from Natural Earth 1:110m admin 0 countries, public domain.

The Classical Mediterranean

East across the sea, for the Acropolis at opening and the museum afterwards.

18 days

The Mediterranean Arc

The end of the arc, and the beginning of most of what is on it.

21 days

Arctic to Mediterranean

Across the sea to the end of the line.

34 days

The Grand Tour

The few who kept going, and came back with the Parthenon in their sketchbooks.

Theme

This page exists because Athens has at least 3 of them in the Atlas. Destinations with fewer do not have a page for this, on purpose — a facet with one or two entries is a heading with a list under it that you could have read in full on the page you came from. Back to Athens.