Old and new Athens sights eBike tour with food tasting

This comprehensive bike tour is the perfect way to get an overview of the many famous attractions in Athens. 

Our tour is the absolute way to orient yourself to the city and discover its fascinating travel in time. See the best sites Athens has to offer in just a few hours including the famous Syntagma, Academy, Food market and Plaka amongst many more. Our trip route follows roads with no or very little automobile traffic,  trails through parks, plazas and cobblestone alleys. Our tour leader loves to offer you tips of what to see, visit, taste and buy in Athens.

What to expect

We have brilliantly designed this tour having in mind to show the relevance, and in time it has become a very efficient guide to offer a captivating and modern presentation of the continuity amongst the old monuments and the new landmarks of Athens, and we enhanced this trip with delicious local food.

• Along the way take the opportunity to capture the city spots on camera.
• Cycle along the World Heritage numerous sights of Athens, pause to admire the architecture of embossing buildings and snapshots of the modern life.
• We visit a couple of selected spots to take a break and try the traditional delicacy loukoumades and later the famous souvlaki. 
• Enjoy a perfect cycling feel on our eBikes as you roll smoothly up and down the hills of Athens.See the top landmarks like the Acropolis and Olympic Stadium.
• Care of intimacy in small shared groups or in a private departure.
• Avoid hassle and enjoy commentary with our ear bud audio system.
• Quality cycling equipment and baby seat provided.

Good to know

This is a Full Introduction to the city's classical and contemporary segments. The tour goes with Traffic for a short distance, less than 5% of total length. This is an ideal choice for witness the life style besides sightseeing. If you actually enjoy to try local street food besides discovering the local attractions, then book this is tour.

Itinerary

We ride through the modern centre, area full of architectural landmarks related to the more recent era of the city as the capital of Greece. We shall start from the famous National Gardens area with interesting landmarks and the Greek Parliament and later discover the first Palace.

We cycle downtown at the currently multiethnic part of Athens. The busy streets, the variety of the shops mixed with smells and colours, offers you a cinematographic view of the Athenians go by the day. A short visit at the food market is an appetiser before our first sweet tasting.

Beautiful back streets will take you through old neighbourhoods to the recently renovated Cathedral of Athens. We continue through antiquities of the Roman erat to the very popular spot of Monastiraki, the gate to the ancient paths of the city. At this point and before enter the old part of Athens we have a stop to enjoy our souvlaki.

We enter at the last part of our journey, at Plaka. Is a unique neighbourhood situated underneath the Acropolis rock, the bearer of a heavy historical weight full off alleys marking the city life of the last 3000 years. Many interesting monuments and anecdotes mark this last part of the tour.

Highlights

• Admire the gigantic Temple of Zeus

• Take a fresh breath at the cult area of our National Garden

• Take photographs of the impressive Presidential Guard at Syntagma

• Admire the world's finest Neoclassical sample at Athens Academy

• Find the almost forgotten First Royal Residence

• Discover the oldest square of Athens at the City Hall

• Have a look inside the crowded Central Food Market

• The impressive inside but modest outside Athens Cathedral

• Thission promenade is the most touristic attraction underneath the Acropolis