Plan Your Trip Welcome to Athens ............4 Top Sights ............................6 Eating .................................10 Drinking & Nightlife ..........12 Shopping ............................14 Arts & Entertainment.......16 Museums & History ..........18 Activities & Events........... 20 For Free ..............................21 LGBTIQ+ ........................... 22 For Kids ............................. 23 Four Perfect Days ............24 Need to Know ................... 26 Athens Neighbourhoods .............. 28 Temple of Olympian Zeus (p116) PEL_1971/GETTY IMAGES © 00--contents-pk-ath4.inddcontents-pk-ath4.indd 2 113/09/20183/09/2018 22:40:14:40:14 PM Explore Survival Athens 31 Guide 173 Acropolis Before You Go .................174 Area ................................... 33 Arriving in Athens ...........175 Monastiraki Getting Around ...............176 & Psyrri ............................. 53 Essential Information .... 177 Syntagma & Plaka ...............................77 Language .........................182 Kolonaki ............................ 99 Index ................................ 184 Mets & Pangrati ........................115 Omonia Special Features & Exarhia ..........................127 Acropolis ........................... 34 Filopappou Hill, Acropolis Museum ...........40 Thisio & Petralona ..........147 Ancient Agora .................. 54 Gazi, Keramikos & Metaxourgio .................157 Benaki Museum of Greek Culture .................100 Temple of Worth a Trip Olympian Zeus ................116 Faliro .................................170 National Archaeological Museum .......................... 128 Filopappou Hill ............... 148 Kerameikos ..................... 158 00--contents-pk-ath4.inddcontents-pk-ath4.indd 3 113/09/20183/09/2018 22:40:14:40:14 PM Welcome to Athens WithWith equalequal measures ofof grungegrunge andand grace, AthensAthens is a heaheadydy mixmix of historyhistory aandnd edgineedginess.ss. CulturalCultural andand socialsocial liflifee playplayss out amiamid,d, aroaroundu and within ancientancient landmarks,landmarks, and the magnificentmagnificent AcropolisAcropolis towerstow over all. There is crackling energy in galleries, political debates and street art. Go with a mind open to spontaneous discovery, and you will be rewarded. 01--welcome-to-pk-ath4.inddwelcome-to-pk-ath4.indd 4 113/09/20183/09/2018 22:40:39:40:39 PM View from the Acropolis (p34) towards Lykavittos Hill (p103) ADRIENNE PITTS/LONELY PLANET © 01--welcome-to-pk-ath4.inddwelcome-to-pk-ath4.indd 5 113/09/20183/09/2018 22:40:42:40:42 PM 6 Top Sights Acropolis An icon of Western civilisation. p34 Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan S.BORISOV/SHUTTERSTOCK © S.BORISOV/SHUTTERSTOCK Top Sights 02--top-sights-pk-ath4.inddtop-sights-pk-ath4.indd 6 113/09/20183/09/2018 22:41:07:41:07 PM 7 SAIKO3P/SHUTTERSTOCK ©SAIKO3P/SHUTTERSTOCK ©TSICHLIS/SHUTTERSTOCK GEORGIOS © SAIKO3P/SHUTTERSTOCK Acropolis Museum The Parthenon at eye level. p40 Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Ancient Agora The heart of classi- cal Athens. p54 Benaki Museum of Greek Culture Private mansion turned public treasure. p100 02--top-sights-pk-ath4.inddtop-sights-pk-ath4.indd 7 113/09/20183/09/2018 22:41:09:41:09 PM 8 National Archaeological Museum Greece’s finest classical treasures. p128 HERACLES KRITIKOS/SHUTTERSTOCK © KRITIKOS/SHUTTERSTOCK HERACLES © IMAGES MILANGONDA/GETTY Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights Kerameikos A cemetery reveals ancient life. p158 02--top-sights-pk-ath4.inddtop-sights-pk-ath4.indd 8 113/09/20183/09/2018 22:41:10:41:10 PM 9 Filopappou Hill Ancient history and green space. p148 SAIKO3P/GETTY IMAGES © IMAGES SAIKO3P/GETTY Plan Your Trip Trip Your Plan Top Sights JÚNIOR BRAZ/500PX © BRAZ/500PX JÚNIOR Temple of Olympian Zeus Emperor Hadrian’s biggest building project. p116 02--top-sights-pk-ath4.inddtop-sights-pk-ath4.indd 9 113/09/20183/09/2018 22:41:10:41:10 PM.