Acropolis Museum, and Syntagma

A slower start today, we headed out for breakfast and coffee, then headed into the Acropolis Museum, with the tickets we’d bought the previous afternoon to jump the queue (having learned our lesson the day before). This is a brand new structure, which has been built over excavated ruins still being unearthed, and large areas of the floor of the museum are glass, so you can see the ruins beneath.

Many artefacts have been removed from the Temple of Athena (the Parthenon) and displayed here, a lot reconstructed and “completed” with plaster, so the visitor can appreciate the final art works...quite amazing.

Leaving the museum,we walked towards Hadrian’s Gate, and the Gardens of Syntagma. A lush, but untamed area of gardens in the centre of Athens, near the Parliament House.Read more