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Car Rentals

 Holiday Autos  -    
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

 Sixt  -   

Hotels in Athens

Argo Holidays 

 Hotels in Greece  -  Hotel Guide Greece
Brochures of the hotels, room rates, hotel packages, special offers and last minutes, including real-time booking facilities.

    -  Hotels in Greece
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Hostels

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

 TFTHostels  -  Seach all hostels, book the cheapest
Hostels, Budget Hotels, Apartments, Guesthouses, B&B, and Campsites.
Hostel search engine. Search all Hostels, find the cheapest. Compare rates, reviews and recommendations. Check availability, specs and location. Book the hostel of your choice by visiting the hostel booking website.

Travel Agent / Tour Operators

Thomas Cook  -  City trips Athens

Argo Holidays 

Cresta Holidays 
Cheap City Breaks Athens.

 -  Create your perfect trip to Athens - Flight, Hotel and Car



 Amathus Holidays 
 Andante Travels  -  Archaeology and Ancient History Tours
 Greek Sun Holidays 

Travel Guides Athens / Related books

 

Jumbogo 
jumboGo.co.uk is one of the leading Internet book shops for travel guides, maps and language phrase books. Did you know that jumboGo.co.uk offers books and maps from all well known publishers like e.g. Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Footprint, Cicerone, AA and many more.

Amazon.com - Travel Guides Athens 

Transport / How do I travel to Athens

 Athens Airport

 

 Ebookers  -   
Book cheap flights to Athens at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

Singapore Airlines  -  direct flights from London to Athens

 KLM  -  Flights to Athens

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Flights to Athens / Price comparison possible

 OSE - Hellenic Railways Organisation  -  Greek Railways
Connections, timetables etc.

 KTEL of Attica  -  public bus transport in the vicinity of Athens

 Ferries.gr

 OASA  -  Athens Urban Transport Organization - public transport Athens

 Metro Athens  -  Attiko Metro

 ISAP  -  train connection between Athens and Piraeus


Links 

 Travel Insurance  -  travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Athens Today
Athens history | Athens scene | Athens sight | General Information | Greek cuisine | Museums | Transport | Sports | Need to know / Where to stay | Nightlife

 Athene City  -  City of Athens official website

 Piraeus  -  Port of Athens

 Greece Now

 Academy of Plato
Academy was a suburb of Athens, named after the hero Academos or Ecademos. The site was continuously inhabited from the prehistoric period until the 6th century A.D. During the 6th century B.C., one of the three famous Gymnasiums of Athens was founded here. Plato founded his philosophical school, which became very famous due to the Neoplatonists, and remained in use until A.D. 526, when it was finally closed down by emperor Justinian.
 Acropolis of Athens - Athens' trademark monument
The Parthenon visible from almost everywhere in the centre, is a gleaming marble monument to the legacy of ancient Greek civilisation. The Parthenon [ literally "virgin's quarters" ] is the largest Doric temple ever completed in Greece, and the only one built completely of Pentelic marble.
See Great Buildings - The Parthenon or 'The Greeks' at PBS [ 3D-version ]
 Aghioi Theodoroi Church
 Ancient Agora of Athens
The Agora was the heart of ancient Athens, the focus of political, commercial, administrative and social activity, the religious and cultural centre, and the seat of justice.
 Archaeological site of Kerameikos
Kerameikos was named after the community of the potters (kerameis) who occupied the whole area along the banks of river Eridanos.
 Archaeological site of the Olympieion
 Cave of Prophet Elias
 Church of the Gorgoepikoos
 Hadrian's Arch
 Hadrian's Library
The rectangular building of the Library comprises a Corinthian propylon on the west side, an open peristyle courtyard, three projecting conches on each of the long sides, a library, study and lecture halls.
It was built in A.D. 132 by emperor Hadrian.
 Horologion of Andronicos (Tower of the Winds)
 Kapnikarea church
 Kolonáki
 Lysikrates Monument
 Monastiráki Square - Flee market
 National Garden - Park
 Omónia Square
 Panathenaic stadium
The first modern Olympics were held in 1896 at the Panathenaic stadium, originally built in the 4th century BC as a venue for athletic contests. Today it is still used as the finishing line of the Athens annual Marathon and other races.
Every four years, a spectacular ceremony takes place in the stadium, when Greece gives the Olympic flame to the country hosting the next Olympics.
 Pedion tou Areos - Park
 Plaka
In Plaka, the Old Town, you will find small shops selling leather, jewellery, and hand-crafted items.
For traditional Greek atmosphere and specialities try one of the many tavernas, cafés or bars hidden in the small streets of the Plaka.
 Philopappos Monument
 Pnyx
 Roman Agora of Athens
Large building measuring 111 x 98 m., comprising a spacious rectangular courtyard surrounded by stoas, shops and storerooms. It has an east, Ionic propylon and a west, Doric propylon, known as the Gate of Athena Archegetis. It was built between 19 and 11 B.C. with a donation of Julius Caesar and Augustus.
 Syntagma square
 Zappion - Park

 Euböa island
 Gulf of Korinth
 Kanaal van Chaldika
 Saronic Islands

 National Technical University of Athens
School of Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Architecture, Chemical Engineering, Rural & Surveying Engineering, Mining & Metallurgical Engineering, Naval Engineering, School of Applied Mathematical & Physical sciences

Cuisine - Greek recipes

  Greek Cookery: 300 Traditional Recipes  - Chrissa Paradissis
Every country has its own sense of taste and its own manner of cooking. A culinary review offers proof that the concoctions of each and every ethnic group bear the stamp of the Greek art of cooking. This book will be a valuable helpmate and a source of inspiration for the contemporary homemaker. In it you will find not only hundreds of tasty recipes, but co-ordinated suggestions for delightful, impressive menus, a feast of main dishes and luscious dessert ideas, with step-by-step instructions so that you can cook them easily and correctly, and work real miracles in your kitchen. Recipes are organised in the traditional categories. When leafing through this book, you may notice the amazing true-to-life illustrations, which will help make your table a thing of beauty. At the end of the book you will also find helpful hints and advice.
Hardcover 208 pages (December 1, 1997); Publisher: Efstathiadis Group,Greece; Language: English; ISBN: 9607436105.

 Restaurants in Athens

 Eat Greek toninght
If you love greek food and wish to enjoy it in the comfort of your own home, the recipe pages will fill your kitchen with the aromas of this delightful cuisine. Whether it's an exotic entree or your favourite appetizers. You can add your own greek recipes if you like.
 A Guide to Greek Food - by Matt Barrett
All you need to know about Greek eating and cooking and maybe more...
Retsina and Greek Wine, Ouzo, Sardeles Pastes, Souvlakia: The Source of Life, Patsa: Miracle Food of the Working Class, Cook Books, a few Recipes, Food Links, and more

History of Greece

Independent in 1829 from the Ottoman Empire

Greece has a history stretching back more than 4.000 years. The people of the mainland, called Hellenes, organised great naval and military expeditions, and explored the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, going as far as the Atlantic Ocean and the Caucasus Mountains. One of those expeditions, the siege of Troy, is narrated in the first great European literary work, Homer's Iliad. Numerous Greek settlements were founded throughout the Mediterranean, Asia Minor and the coast of North Africa as a result of travels in search of new markets.

 Ancient Greece - history, mythology, art, culture and architecture

Music, Culture & Entertainment

 Ancient Greek Music - 
This site contains all published fragments of Ancient Greek music which contain more than a few scattered notes. All of them are recorded under the use of tunings whose exact ratios have been transmitted to us by ancient theoreticians (of the Pythagorean school, most of them cited by Ptolemaios). Instruments and speed are chosen by the author. The exact sound depends on your hard- and software.
 Greek Music Links
 Hellenic Culture - Odysseus, webserver of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture
 Culture Guide Greece -
The e-magazine cultureguide.gr is a project operated by the scheme "Domain of Culture" of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. Cultureguide.gr covers many cultural and artistic events and activities in Greece
Cultural Olympiad | Theatre | Music | Visual Arts | Dance | Cinema | Photography | Folk Art | Literature | Architecture | Cultural Heritage | Greece Abroad | Various Events | Olympic Cities
 Rembetika Music
Rembetika music is the music of the Greek Underground. It originated in the hashish dens of Pireaus and Thessaloniki with the forced immigration of 2 million Greek refugees from Asia Minor. It evolved into Greek Popular Music.

Web Portal / Search Engine / Directory

 Athens City Guide
 Athen's Survival Guide
Basic Athens info, walking in Athens, Service in Athens, Getting out of Athens
 Athens Photo News

 Go Greece  -  doing busniess, education, sport & recreation etc..
 Greekshops  -  travel guides, maps etc.
 Grecomar
 Greek radio stations / tv stations on-line
 Travel Greece.com 

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