Athens Unveiled: all you must see as a first timer in Greece's historic capital
A bit of context
Athens (Greek: Αθήνα) is the capital and largest city of Greece. The city dominates the Attica region and is one of the oldest cities in the world, and its territory has been continuously inhabited for 3,400 years.
Classical Athens, from the Ancient Greek period, was a powerful polis (city-state) that emerged in conjunction with the development of the port of Piraeus. An artistic, student, and philosophical center since antiquity, the city was home to Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, and is widely regarded as the cradle of Western civilization and democracy, largely due to the impact of their cultural and political achievements during the 4th and 5th centuries BC. in the rest of the European continent.
Today, it is a cosmopolitan metropolis and the economic, financial, industrial, political and cultural center of Greece.
