Welcome to Sasha's Athens Travel Guide - a detailed online guidebook on health, transportation, emergency contacts, tipping, staying in touch, shopping and sightseeing, museum listings and entertainment in Athens. Comprehensive bar and restaurant guides are also included.
It can be frustrating and time-consuming to research your travel destination. We live and work in Athens and know it like a back of our hand. We are always happy when people come and visit our beautiful home city and want you to have as much information about Dublin as possible. That is why we have put together an online Athens Travel Guide full of essential information for your trip.
Modern Athens is a prosperous place, a metropolis that is home to four million--almost half of the country's population. It remains a collage of history. On the hill under the Acropolis you'll find the old village called the Plaka, now the tourist center of Athens, where shops and restaurants stand elbow-to-elbow with ancient ruins and Byzantine churches. To give it the dignity of a capital, the first kings of Greece laid out wide boulevards and squares and built stately neoclassical buildings that are still on view today.