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Ancient Agora of Athens Archaeological Site & Museum Admission Ticket
Ancient Agora of Athens Archaeological Site & Museum Admission Ticket
Ancient Agora of Athens Archaeological Site & Museum Admission Ticket
Ancient Agora of Athens Archaeological Site & Museum Admission Ticket
Ancient Agora of Athens Archaeological Site & Museum Admission Ticket

Ancient Agora of Athens Site & Museum Skip-the-Line Ticket

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Price is CA $20 per adult
Features
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Skip the line
  • Instant confirmation
Overview

The Agora was the centre of Athenian democracy, where the city's most important political functions were exercised and where both Pericles and Socrates once walked. The ruins of the ancient Agora, the exceptionally well-preserved temple of Hephaistos and the restored Stoa of Attalos may be visited in the shadow of the Acropolis at a site characterised by particular natural beauty.

Activity location

  • Ancient Agora of Athens
    • Adrianou 24
    • 105 55, Athens, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Ancient Agora of Athens
    • Adrianou 24
    • 105 55, Athens, Greece

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Skip-the-Line Ticket
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
Price details
CA $19.81 x 1 AdultCA $19.81

Total
Price is CA $19.81

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedAdmission ticket to Ancient Agora archaeological site
  • What's includedWhat's includedAdmission ticket to Ancient Agora museum
  • What's includedWhat's includedService fee

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • Children and young people up to the age of 25, from EU member-states, upon presentation of their ID card or passport for verification of their age and country of origin are entitled to free admission.
  • Children up to the age of 5, from non-European Union countries, upon presentation of their passport for verification of their age and country of origin are entitled to free admission.
  • If you accompany free admission beneficiaries, buy your general admission tickets online and gain direct access to one of the fast-lane ticket offices to obtain the free admission tickets quickly and easily, upon proof of eligibility.
  • In the area of the Temple of Hephaistos, wheelchair access is possible through the entrance at the Thiseion Square (Apostolou Pavlou Street), should contact in advance for details and terms

Activity itinerary

Ancient Agora of Athens
  • 20m
The Ancient Agora of Athens is a flat area defined by the Sacred Rock of the Acropolis and the hill of Areopagus in the south and the hill of Kolonos Agoraios in the west. It is traversed by one of the most important ancient roads, the Panathenaic Way, which led to the Acropolis from the main gate of the city, the Dipylon Gate. This road served as the processional way for the great parade of the Panathenaic festival, which was held to honour the city patron goddess Athena.
Temple of Hephaestus
  • 20m
On top of Agoraios Kolonos hill, stands the temple of Hephaestus, broadly known as Thisio. It is one of the best preserved ancient temples, partly because it was transformed into a Christian church. According to the traveller and geographer Pausanias (1, 14, 5-6), two deities were jointly worshipped in the temple: god Hephaestus, protector of all metallurgists, and goddess Athena Ergani, protecting all potters and the cottage industries. The identification of this temple as ?Hephaesteion? (location of worship of the god Hephaestus) was ascertained by the excavations and investigations that brought to light metallurgy workshops on the wider area of the hill, thus outshining earlier opinions presuming that Theseus, Hercules or Aris (Mars) were the deities worshipped there. The temple was probably erected between 460 and 420 BC by a yet unknown architect, to whom, however, are attributed other temples of similar structure in the Attica region
Church of the Holy Apostles
  • 20m
The Church of the Holy Apostles of Solakis was built shortly before 1000 AD. and was partially based on a Nymphaeum of the 2nd c. A.D. It was the centre of a Byzantine quarter that developed in the area. The original floor plan of the temple was cruciform inscribed, with arches on the four sides and a narthex on the west side. The dome was supported by four columns. The Holy Altar and the floor of the temple were marble. The exterior masonry preserves elaborate ceramic ornaments of horizontal serrated bands and "Kufic" designs which owe their name to the Arabic script developed in the city of Kufa. Four construction phases can be found in the building, as over the years the temple was repaired and expanded several times. It is the only medieval monument that survives in the area of ​​the Athenian Agora. It was restored to its original form in the years 1954 - 1957. The few surviving frescoes in the central aisle of the church date from the 17th century.
Museum of the Ancient Agora
  • 1h
The Museum of the Ancient Agora is housed in the reconstructed Stoa of Attalos, originally erected during the 2nd cent. BC as a gift of the king of Pergamon, Attalos II, to Athens. The exhibition in the Museum gallery holds archaeological finds coming from the systematic excavations of the American School of Classical Studies in the area and dated from the Neolithic to the Post-byzantine and Ottoman periods.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESAncient Agora of Athens
    • Adrianou 24
    • 105 55, Athens, Greece

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEAncient Agora of Athens
    • Adrianou 24
    • 105 55, Athens, Greece

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