CLASSICAL GREECE
Indicative itinerary subject to changes until departure date
DAY 1 – PORTUGAL / ATHENS
Transfer to the hotel and rest of the day at leisure. Accommodation.
DAY 2 – ATHENS
Breakfast. Arrival at the meeting point in the city center for the panoramic tour of Athens. Start the tour with the Neoclassical center of Athens, the parliament, the university, the library and National Academy, the Ilion Palace, and the Panathenaeum stadium, all dotted with ancient ruins, such as Hadrian's Arch, or the Temple of Zeus. After the panoramic tour, visit the Acropolis, the mountain south of Athens crowned by the classical city of the gods. See the Parthenon, the Propylaea, the Erechtheion and learn about the cradle of Western civilization. Afternoon at leisure. Accommodation.
DAY 3 – ATHENS
Breakfast. Day at leisure to discover and explore the cosmopolitan city and cultural center of Athens. Through its streets full of history, characters, battles, defeats and victories, you can follow the course of Antiquity to the present day. Accommodation.
DAY 4 – ATHENS / CORINTH / EPIDAURUS / MYCENAE / MYCENAE / OLYMPIA
Breakfast. Presentation at the meeting point in the center of the city, for the beginning of the classic circuit. Departure to the Corinth Canal, a magnificent work of engineering. Stop to admire the views. Continue to Epidaurus, and visit its theater of perfect acoustics, with a natural backdrop of incomparable beauty. Part of the sanctuary is dedicated to Aesculapius, god of medicine. Passing to the outskirts of the city of Nafplion, arrive at Mycenae to visit the famous Homeric city, and visit the ruins of the capital of the kingdom of Agamemnon, with the Gate of the Lions and the royal tombs. In the afternoon, crossing the central Peloponnese, arrival in Olympia. Dinner and accommodation.
DAY 5 – OLYMPIA / DELPHOS
Breakfast. Visit the facilities of the ancient Olympic State, where the first Olympic Games were held. Afterwards, visit the impressive museum of Olympia, which preserves key works of art history. In the afternoon departure to the magnificent bridge that crosses the bay of Corinthia. Arrival at Delphi. Dinner and accommodation.
DAY 6 – DELPHOS / METEORA
Breakfast. Visit of the archaeological site of Delphi, whose sanctuary of Apollo was one of the most important pilgrimage destinations of antiquity, at the foot of Parnassus. In the local museum, see its famous statue “The Bronze Charioteer”. Departure to Kalambaka, in central Greece, passing by Thermopylae, where the statue of the Spartan King Leonidas is located. The landscape will surprise you with its fields dotted with charming villages. Dinner and accommodation.
DAY 7 – METEORA / ATHENS
Breakfast. Start with a visit to Meteora, a sort of stone forest, a World Heritage Site, with towering limestone columns on which stand several monasteries founded between the 10th-12th centuries, whose communities of monks are still active and inhabiting these inaccessible retreats. Afterwards, departure to Athens, arriving in the afternoon. Accommodation.
DAY 8 – ATHENS / PORTUGAL
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport.
Departures on Monday and Thursday
Day 1 – Portugal / Athens
Day 2 – Athens
Day 3 – Athens / Corinth / Epidaurus / Mycenae / Olympia
Day 4 – Olympia / Delphos
Day 5 – Delphos / Meteora
Day 6 – Meteora / Athens
Day 7 – Athens
Day 8 – Athens / Portugal
Departures on Tuesday and Friday
Day 1 – Portugal / Athens
Day 2 – Athens / Corinth / Epidaurus / Mycenae / Olympia
Day 3 – Olympia / Delphos
Day 4 – Delphos / Meteora
Day 5 – Meteora / Athens
Day 6 – Athens
Day 7 – Athens
Day 8 – Athens / Portugal
