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Around the Acropolis
You start on the glass floor outside the museum, above a neighbourhood first lived in more than five thousand years ago, and look up at the gallery turned to line up with the temple.
Ancient Athens: Democracy, Philosophy and Daily Life: audio walks
How did the Athenians live, vote, hold trials and bury their dead?
4 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
Explore these walksDemocracy and philosophy weren't the only ways of living in ancient Athens. This theme brings them alongside daily life and the spaces in its walks. It connects ideas, institutions and people, asking how a city was inhabited when it is so often remembered only for the great names and concepts associated with it.
In “Around the Acropolis”: You start on the glass floor outside the museum, above a neighbourhood first lived in more than five thousand years ago, and look up at the gallery turned to line up with the temple.
In “In the Footsteps of Socrates”: Among temples and hills, separate ancient traces from later inventions.
In “From Kerameikos to the Memory of 1944”: Along the fence of the Kerameikos, the great cemetery of classical Athens, and on the street of the synagogues: how a city remembers its dead, from the funeral where Pericles spoke to the deportation of the Jews of Athens.
Choose from 4 independent walks in Athens. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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In the Footsteps of Socrates
Among temples and hills, separate ancient traces from later inventions.
From Kerameikos to the Memory of 1944
Along the fence of the Kerameikos, the great cemetery of classical Athens, and on the street of the synagogues: how a city remembers its dead, from the funeral where Pericles spoke to the deportation of the Jews of Athens.
From the Temple of Zeus to the 1896 Games
You follow the railings of the Temple of Olympian Zeus, which took six hundred years to finish and has lost almost all its columns, one of them knocked flat by the wind.
Athens, before you go
Shade helps shape the walk here. Between city pavements, smooth rock and lanes beneath the Acropolis, a flexible plan and a bottle of water go a long way.
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