Classic to Contemporary: Greece Sightseeing Tours in Athens & Beyond
There is a second at the Acropolis, overdue afternoon, when the white marble softens from glare to glow. Tour groups thin, cicadas take over the soundscape, and a breeze from the Saronic Gulf actions the filth. If you time it right, one can have a couple of minutes to stare throughout millennia, from the Parthenon’s fluted columns to the silver-olive hills and leading-edge city sprawl, and think how Greece holds the arc of Western creativeness in an extraordinarily small ra