Good day, my name is Anna Vafeiadou and I am your host.
I personally guarantee for any Athens Private Tour or
transfer you will book via this website.
If you are arriving from a cruise ship, airplane or even
if you stay in a hotel in Athens, we can accommodate you
from a single person to groups! We have mini-vans,
coaches - buses and a crew of well trained and fluently
English speaking drivers plus licensed guides if you
wish to have one, that are ready to share the same love
as mine for this impressive city! Everybody is welcome
and I will personally make sure that this tour will be a
tour you will never forget.
For any information, please don't hesitate to contact
us .
Enjoy our pages!
Santorini
Private Tours
We
can accommodate you in the breathtaking island of Santorini,
providing the same excellent service with my signature. read
more
Santorini
Sailing Tours
If you prefer a Santorini sailing tour, then choose one
of the many boat types offered from a catamaran to a
traditional boat. read
more
Santorini Weddings
Get
married in Santorini with an experienced wedding planner and
prices for all budgets. Fully assistance on paperwork,
translation, ceremony and reception. Wedding packages from 500
euro. read
more
Our company many years now offers Athens private tours that
cover every interest. With friendly fluently English speaking
guides that shows you the highlights of Athens in the most
comfortable and relaxed way, your Athens private tours will be
memorable. We also have licensed tour guides if you wish to have
a guide inside the Archeological sites.
During your Athens private tours, you will have new vehicles,
non smoking and fully air-conditioned and depending on the
number of guests we offer the proper car that is from a 5 door
to a 50 seat bus and we can accommodate any group size in
comfort. We also offer tour in Delphi, Corinthos (Korinthos),
Cape Sounio, Temple of Poseidon, Epidaurus and anywhere else you
wish.
Athens city was named after the Goddess Athena and is
the
capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica
periphery: as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded
history spans at least 3,000 years and gathers visitors from all
over the world, all year around! Learn more with one of our
Athens Private Tours.
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The Greek goddess Athena, was the goddess of wisdom, battle, and
certain crafts, and was the protector of the concept of cities.
The olive tree was sacred to her, and her sacred bird was the
owl (which is why wisdom is associated with owls).
Poseidon, the god of the Sea, and Athena were in competition to
become the patron of a new city. Poseidon, as a bribe, gave the
first horses to the people, but Athena struck the ground with a
rod and up sprang the first olive tree, olives became an
agricultural staple for the Greeks. She was chosen as the patron
goddess of the city which was called Athens, in her honor.
Athena was born from the head of Zeus, the chief Olympian god.
Zeus had a headache which was growing worse and worse until he
finally had the craftsman god, Hephaestus, split his head open
with an axe, and out sprang Athena, fully grown and in full
armor. This sounds like a rather silly myth, but symbolically
this shows the goddess of wisdom coming from the head of the
chief god. Some of the more practical Greeks decided that Zeus
had swallowed his first wife Metis (a Titan goddess of wisdom)
and she had given birth to Athena within Zeus. Athena then moved
to Zeus's head in order to make her grand entrance and the story
begins...
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The Greek capital has a population of 745,514 (in 2001) within
its administrative limits and a land area of 39 km2
(15 sq mi). The urban area of Athens extends beyond the
administrative city limits with a population of 3.37 million (in
2005). The area of Athens prefecture spans 412 km2
(159 sq mi) and encompasses a population of 3,192,606. The
Athens Larger Urban Zone (LUZ) is the 7th most populated LUZ in
the European Union with a population of 3,894,573 (in 2001). A
bustling and cosmopolitan metropolis, Athens is central to
economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural life in
Greece. It is rapidly becoming a leading business centre in the
European Union. In 2008, Athens was ranked the world's
32nd-richest city in a UBS study.
Classical Athens was a powerful city-state. A centre for the
arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and
Aristotle's Lyceum, Athens was also the birthplace of Socrates,
Pericles, Sophocles and its many other prominent philosophers,
writers and politicians of the ancient world. It is widely
referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the
birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its
cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th
centuries BC on the rest of the then known European continent.
The heritage of the classical era is still evident in the city,
represented by a number of ancient monuments and works of art,
the most famous of all being the Parthenon on the Acropolis,
widely considered a key landmark of early Western civilization.
The city also retains a vast variety of Roman and Byzantine
monuments, as well as a smaller number of remaining Ottoman
monuments projecting the city's long history across the
centuries. Landmarks of the modern era are also present, dating
back to 1830 (the establishment of the independent Greek state),
and taking in the Greek Parliament (19th century) and the Athens
Trilogy (Library, University, and Academy). Athens was the host
city of the first modern-day Olympic Games in 1896, and 108
years later it welcomed home the 2004 Summer Olympics, with
great success.
(Below is a small sample of the vehicles we have, please note
that in the day of your tour it can be a different one depending
the number of people and availability but always new and
air-conditioned)
