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Acropolis and Parthenon Walking Tour

Acropolis and Parthenon Walking Tour

Athens · Greece

8 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Athens’s Acropolis landscape, from the Acropolis of Athens and the Parthenon to the South Slope and the Acropolis Museum. Along the way, you will encounter places that reveal the monuments, worship, and archaeology connected with the hill. The route also includes Philopappos Hill and Areopagus Hill, offering different settings for understanding the Acropolis and its surroundings. Finish at NEW ATHENS FREE TOUR for a chance to bring the walk’s Acropolis and Parthenon focus together with further local context.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 8. The rest are in the app.

  1. Acropolis of Athens

    Acropolis of Athens

    A fortified hill transformed by Pericles into Athens’ political and sacred masterpiece.

  2. Parthenon

    Parthenon

    A temple, treasury, church, mosque, and ruin, all gathered into one fiercely argued monument.

  3. Museum of the South Slope of the Acropolis

    Museum of the South Slope of the Acropolis

    Museum on the south slope of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

  4. 2 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Acropolis Museum

    Acropolis Museum

    A modern museum engineered around ancient ruins, the Parthenon sculptures, and a long-running argument.

  6. Philopappos Hill

    Philopappos Hill

    Philopappos Hill is a park and tourism attraction in Athens, Greece.

  7. Temple of Athena Nike

    Temple of Athena Nike

    A tiny Ionic temple where Athenian victory, war, and reconstruction are all carved into one steep corner.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. 2 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

2 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 8 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

Free to install · Every city’s featured walk is free, start to finish.

  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.