Delphi Meteora Tour
Two Days
1st day Highlights
Departing from Athens our first day’s itinerary includes
- Osios Loukas Monastery: a Byzantine monastery listed in UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites.
- Delphi: The place that in Ancient Greece was considered the “Centre of the World”.
- Delphic oracle: the most important oracle of classical greek world.
- The Temple of Apollo: as Delphi was the major site for the worship of the god in Ancient Greece.
- The Ancient Stadium
- The Ancient Gymnasium
- The Castalian Fountain
- Tholo of Athena Pronaia
- The archaeological museum with interesting statues and many other artifacts.
- Lunch at a local greek tavern with traditional greek cuisine.
- Continue our trip to reach Meteora where we are going to stay overnight.
2nd day Highlights
- We are going to visit Meteora (spectacular rock formations on which 6 Greek Orthodox Monasteries were built -also famous as featured on big screen in the James Bond movie “For Your Eyes Only”). There you will have the time to visit 3 monasteries.
- Time for lunch to taste the locaL greek cuisine.
- On our way back to Athens we make our last top at Thermopylae (or “Hot Gates” . A narrow coastal passage in which the world-famous battle took place between the Greek forces (notably the Spartans) and the invading Persian forces).
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