Today we visited Pireas and Athens. Pireas is on of the largest ports in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the busiest in the world.

What would a visit to Athens be if one didn’t go to see the Acropolis – so this is exactly what we did. We hoped on the hop-on hop-off bus and headed for the ancient ruins. The trip took us through the streets of Pireas, by the major ports and into downtown Athens passed the Olympic stadium.

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The acropolis is an ancient citadel located on a rocky hilltop in Athens and contains the remains of many ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon. The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena. We also was able to see the Temple of Zeus and the old theatre.

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From the acropolis site we were able to get great views of Athens.

After visiting all of the ruins we strolled through the streets around the site. Found a nice little cafeteria and stopped for a quick drink and local cheese pie.

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