Day Trips
From Athens

Athens is one of the best-positioned capitals in Europe for day trips. Ancient sanctuaries, islands reachable by ferry i...

Delphi was the most sacred site in the ancient Greek world -- home to the Oracle of Apollo, where kings and generals cam...

Perched on a cliff 60 metres above the Aegean Sea, the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion is one of the most dramatic an...

Two of the Peloponnese's greatest highlights in a single day -- the ancient citadel of Mycenae, seat of King Agamemnon, ...

No cars, no motorbikes, no high-rises. Hydra is the most atmospheric island you can reach from Athens in a day -- a car-...

Athens is one of the few European capitals where you can visit ancient ruins in the morning and swim in turquoise water ...

The ancient theatre at Epidaurus is the best-preserved theatre from antiquity -- 14,000 seats carved into a hillside, wi...

The closest Greek island to Athens and the easiest to reach -- Aegina is a 40-minute ferry ride from Piraeus, with a 2,5...

Giant sandstone pillars rising 300 metres from the Thessalian plain, topped by Byzantine monasteries that look like they...

Three Greek islands in a single day -- the Saronic Islands cruise is one of the most popular day trips from Athens. You ...

One of the most powerful cities in the ancient world, a Roman provincial capital, and the place where the Apostle Paul p...

Greece's most elegant small town -- Nafplio was the first capital of independent Greece, and it shows. Venetian fortress...

A small, green island separated from the Peloponnese by a narrow strait just 250 metres wide -- Poros is one of the easi...

A collapsed cave filled with warm mineral water, surrounded by cliffs and pine trees, 25 km from central Athens. Lake Vo...

The wildest mountain near Athens -- Parnitha rises to 1,413 metres just 30 km north of the city centre. Pine forests, re...

In September 490 BC, an outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persian Empire on a coastal plain northeast of Athens -- ...

Greece has ski resorts. This surprises people. Mount Parnassus, 2,457 metres above sea level and about 2.5 hours from At...

Greece has been making wine for 6,500 years -- longer than almost anywhere on earth. Within an hour of central Athens, y...

Travelling with children in Greece doesn't mean choosing between your interests and theirs. The best day trips from Athe...

A 5 km sweep of golden sand backed by a dense pine forest, with the Marathon mountains rising behind -- Schinias is cons...

The least known of the Saronic islands and arguably the most beautiful for a simple beach day. Agistri is a small, pine-...

The furthest Saronic island from Athens and the most refined -- Spetses is where wealthy Athenians have kept summer home...

For nearly 2,000 years, Eleusis was the most sacred site in the Greek world -- home to secret initiation rites so closel...

One of the most important sanctuaries of the goddess Artemis, set in a quiet coastal valley on the east coast of Attica....

The closest mountain to central Athens -- Hymettus rises directly from the eastern suburbs, and you can be on a hiking t...

The mountain that built the Parthenon. Mount Penteli's ancient marble quarries supplied the luminous white stone for the...

The former summer residence of the Greek royal family, abandoned since the monarchy was abolished in 1974 and slowly bei...

Athens is one of the great food cities of the Mediterranean, and a food tour is one of the best ways to experience it --...

Greece's most important red wine region is a 90-minute drive from Athens, in the rolling hills of the northeastern Pelop...

A medieval fortress town built into the side of a massive rock rising from the sea, connected to the mainland by a singl...

Rappelling down waterfalls, sliding through narrow gorges, jumping into natural pools -- canyoning is one of the most ex...

Athens is a year-round destination, but the best day trip for you depends entirely on when you're visiting. Summer heat ...