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This is a city I wanted to visit for years. I do not know if it happened only to me, but any time I launched the idea of visiting Athens(not greek islands, but Athens) I got told by friends, people I knew and even travel agents: why?? It's just a dirty city, chose something else.This surprised me any time thinking of the city history and how much it could offer, but I look like to meet all the ones that didn't like this city.
Living in Italy and so not having the position to teach the rest of the world how to keep a city cleaned, this time I decided to get an alitalia flight offert and go, without telling anyone so to avoid bad pressions.
As I expected I found an incredibly modern city with some of the most important archeological sites in the world and very friendly people. While I was there there were some active protests in the centre as Greek economy is not having a good time and as always people are just charged of sacrifices by those who never lose anything.
- Pros:history
- Cons:acropolis is really too crowded
- In a nutshell:go, but don't think you cannot skip parthenon
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The ruins of Athens especially Acropolis are certainly amazing! Your travel pages certainly bring back fond memories of our trip to Athens many years ago. Thanks for sharing this wonderful page of yours. ~ho & pang
it seems you enjoyed your stay no matter what you have heard about the city :) and yes, 10.00am is late for going to Acropolis with no tourists around :)
Super pages. Outstanding photographs. Honest restaurant tips. Excellent hotel and good location. Very enjoyable!
Wow... Athens. Nice page with helpful tips. Like the protest picture - very current. Cheers, SL :)
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an interesting page, Corra ! I have been in Athens, including the Akropolis lots of years ago, but I did not really enjoy it very much. Too much dust, tourists and also quite hot !!
:-))
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