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History and Monuments

History and Monuments

Athens · Greece

14 stops
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Follow this walk through a rich sequence of castles, ruins, monuments, archaeological sites, an odeon, a church, and memorials. You will see how Athens presents its history through sacred places, public spaces, civic figures, and surviving ancient structures. Each stop adds a distinct chapter, making the walk worthwhile for anyone who wants to encounter the city through its monuments rather than through a general city tour.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Acropolis

    Acropolis

    A fortress, sanctuary, and political stage, rebuilt in marble and battered by its later history.

  2. Erechtheum

    Erechtheum

    A temple where Athena, Poseidon, myths, politics, and stolen Caryatids share one difficult building.

  3. Theatre of Dionysus

    Theatre of Dionysus

    Where Athenian drama became public ritual, politics, and eventually Roman spectacle.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Stoa of Eumenes

    Stoa of Eumenes

    A two-storey Pergamene gift that sheltered theatre crowds and became part of the Herodeion.

  6. Athena Promachos statue place

    Athena Promachos statue place

    The vanished bronze giant once made Athens visible from the sea.

  7. Athena Nike Temple

    Athena Nike Temple

    A tiny temple built to keep Victory, quite literally, from flying away.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 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.