All Day Excursion In Athens

STARTING POINT

Your personal driver will pick you up from your accommodation the time of your preference for this trip to a place of spirituality a place that will give a new perspective on the combination of natural beauty, history and unique architectural beauty.

LEONIDAS MONUMENT

A memorial to the great King Leonidas of Sparta who stood with his 300 man against the thousands of men of the Persian’s King Xerxes army and is located at the center of the pass, where the final phase of the battle took place, as is attested by the accumulation at the foot of the hill of iron and bronze spearheads.

METEORA

Meteora means hanging in the air, these are imposing rocks that were created 25-30 million years ago when this area was a lake, a rock formation hosting one of the largest and most precipitously built complexes of Eastern Orthodox Monasteries. Many of them have an aerial lift for people and products that work until today.

CITY OF KALAMPAKA

The city took its name from the Turkish language and means powerful fortress, During the Turkish rule the city was a great commercial center, the inhabitants cultivated and traded cotton and silk of excellent quality. A city with a museum of national history of Meteora, a mushroom museum and a museum of Greek education.

KASTRAKI

A village on the road to Meteora famous for the tradition of climbing of young men to the Monastery of Agiou Georgiou wich is build in a rock indentation to hang scarfes once in the year to honor the Saint and as wishes for good health.

THEOPETRA CAVE

A prehestoric cave that contains one of the longest archaeological sequences in Greece which include Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic cultural remains that cover the evolution of man in a period very decisive, the transition on mankind from Neuterdal to Homo sapiens.