Acropolis Skip the line Ticket with Audio Tour & City Audio Tour

Enjoy a hassle-free visit to the must-see Acropolis Hill with an entry e-ticket with a time slot of your choice and discover the riveting history of the hill and the Parthenon through a captivating audio tour on your phone.

Full Description:

Experience the most iconic landmark of Greece at your own pace with a time-slotted ticket for the Acropolis Hill,  and a captivating self-guided audio tour on your smartphone. 

Receive your e-tickets by email, in order to enter Acropolis Hill, download the app and the audio tours on your phone, prior to your visit, and travel back in time to experience the grandeur of the Athenian Golden Age. Do not miss discovering contemporary Athens with a self-guided city audio tour.

Put on your headphones and discover the top archaeological attraction of Athens through the power of storytelling and learn historical information and uncommon stories and anecdotes from ancient times. This is your chance to explore Athens with a self-guided audio city tour on your phone and lose yourself in the beauty of their stories. Tours’ content is the result of in-depth research, squeezed into brief original stories that will make your visit both engaging and informative. The audio tours can be used repeatedly and anytime, before or after your visit. 

This is an unmissable opportunity to gain valuable insights into ancient and contemporary Athens, the birthplace of democracy, and relate to your surroundings in an entirely original way.

Highlights: 

• Enjoy a hassle-free visit to Acropolis Hill  with a time-slotted e-ticket
• Walk around Athens with a captivating self-guided audio city tour
• Download the app and 2 audio tours, prior to your visit
• Admire the Propylaea, the Parthenon, among many other fascinating attractions and artifacts
• Gain important insights into the myths, the anecdotal stories, and the political life of the Ancient Athenians
• Enjoy magnificent views of the city from the best vantage points

Where travelers go on this tour - Locations:  

• Acropolis Hill

Propylaea (7 minutes): Celebrated as the most impressive structure of classical Athens, the Propylaea, the majestic entranceway to the hill, invites you to take a leap into the Golden Age of Athens and walk in the shoes of legendary personalities, such as Socrates and Pericles, whose stories still excite our imagination.     

Parthenon (17 minutes): The Parthenon is the perfect embodiment of the aesthetics and ideals of classical Athens. Listen to the stories about the great minds who envisioned and constructed the temple and learn about the optical illusions that brilliantly fiddle with the viewer’s perception. 

• Athens City Tour

Syntagma Square (10 mins): The most popular and crowded square in Greece and one of the landmarks of Athens is Syntagma Square. Designed and constructed in the late 1840s, the Syntagma (translated in English constitution) square is a synonym of the contemporary history of Greece. How does the square relate its history with the one of Athens and of the citizens’ rights? The answer lies in our tour.  

Athens Central Market (Varvakeios) (20 mins): The perfect location for foodies and for those who want to be surrounded by flavors, aromas, and traditional delicacies. Athens Central Market or Varvakeios as it is commonly known is one of the places where you can feel the vibes of the city and until today remains the largest metal construction in Athens. Owing its name to Ioannis Varvakis, who was the first entrepreneur to export caviar from Russia to Europe in waterproof timber boxes, Varvakeios has a long and interesting history. 

Sanctuary of Pan (10 mins): Athens is a city forged by myths and legends. The Sanctuary of Pan, hidden in Apostolou Pavlou Street, is narrating the myth of a god who took the initiative and asked people to worship him because he wanted to be of service to them. This humble opening in the rock was dedicated to the cult of Pan, a deity from Arcadia in the Peloponnese who provided protection for shepherds and ensured the fertility of animals. His sanctuaries are usually scattered in the wilderness far from urban areas. It is a unique opportunity to discover its Athenian sanctuary, listening to the stories about the merciful god and the importance of its cult. 

The Tower of the Winds (25 mins): Do you want to see what the world’s first meteorological station looked like? The Tower of the Winds will give you the answer because it is the first one. Designed by the Macedonian astronomer Andronicus of Cyrrhus around 50 BC, the tower is decorated with the representation of the eight principal winds. Find out more about its function and each wind, by listening to our stories. 

Meeting point - Starting point:

There is no meeting point. 

• The Acropolis tour (“Acropolis Classic”) is designed to start at the side Acropolis entrance from the south-east slopes of the hill (Thrasillou, Athens, 105 58) 
• The Athens city tour is designed to start at Syntagma Square. The easiest way to get there is on foot or by metro (line 3, Syntagma station). 

Ending points: 

• Acropolis tour: Main West Entrance/Exit of the Acropolis 
• Αthens City Tour: ends in front of  the old Parliament House

Know Before You Book:

• This is a downloadable  2 self-guided audio tour for your smartphone and one e-ticket for the Acropolis Hill 
• You will receive a link in a separate email with the BookingPage url to choose the time slot to enter only Acropolis Hill. Please use this link to download your e-tickets and the app for the audio guide.
• Check the separate email for important instructions about how to access your activity
• Download the ticket(s) and audio tour while on WiFi prior to your visit since there may be no signal at the site
• No live guide or meeting point was provided.
• An Android (version 5.0 and later) or iOS smartphone is required. The audio tour is not compatible with Windows Phones, iPhone 5/5C or older, iPod Touch 5th generation or older, iPad 4th generation or older, iPad Mini 1st generation
• You will need storage space on your phone (350 MB)
• Free/reduced admission tickets do not have skip-the-line privileges and can only be acquired at the ticket booth on-site. 

Additional Information

Venue(s)’ Opening Hours:

• 1 November until 31 March 8:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m. 
• 1 April to 15 May 8:00 a.m. to 18:00 p.m. (last admission 17:30) 
• 16 May until 31 August 8:00 a.m. until 20:00 p.m.     
• September: 8:00 a.m. to 19:30 p.m. 
• October 8:00 to 18:30 p.m.   

Blockout dates:

• 6 March 
• 18 April 
• 18 May 
• The last weekend of September annually (European Heritage Days) 
• 28 October (Greek National Holiday)
• Every first Sunday from November 1st to March 31st
• 1 January 
• 25 March 
• Greek Orthodox Easter Sunday, 
• 1 May
• 25 December
• 26 December