Self-guided walking tour
Athens Walking Tour: Museums and Hills – Ardittos to Lycabettus (4.5 hours, 9 stops)
9 stops in walking order through Athens, from Ardittos Hill to Mount Lycabettus: 5.4 km on foot, about 1 h 5 min of walking, 4 h 30 min in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Museums and Hills: Ardittos to Lycabettus”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.
- Total
- 4 h 30 min
- Distance
- 5.4 km
- Walking
- 1 h 5 min
- Stops
- 9
The stops, in walking order
Ardittos Hill
A public park covered with pines and Mediterranean vegetation, overlooking the Panathenaic Stadium.
13 min walk · 1.1 km
Panathenaic Stadium
An arena built entirely from marble, with origins reaching back to the ancient Panathenaic Games.
8 min walk · 610 m
Zappeion
A grand neoclassical building beside the National Gardens, used for meetings, exhibitions, and ceremonies.
9 min walk · 740 m
Syntagma Square
Athens’s central public square, set before the Old Royal Palace, where the Greek Parliament has sat since 1934.
9 min walk · 780 m
Kolonaki
An upscale Athens neighbourhood on the southern slopes of Mount Lycabettus, marked by the column in Kolonaki Square that gave it its name.
2 min walk · 160 m
Benaki Museum
The Benaki Museum occupies the Benakis family mansion and presents Greek culture across a vast historical span, from prehistoric times to the modern era.
2 min walk · 180 m
Museum of Cycladic Art
The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens houses an extensive collection of Cycladic and ancient Greek antiquities assembled by Nikolaos and Dolly Goulandris.
4 min walk · 340 m
Byzantine and Christian Museum
The Byzantine and Christian Museum occupies Villa Ilissia, a mansion designed by Stamatios Kleanthis.
18 min walk · 1.5 km
Mount Lycabettus
A limestone hill rising above Athens, with pine trees at its base and the city’s highest summit in Central Athens.
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