A virtual tour in Athens, Greece

Greece-Athens & the Mainland, Eyewitness Travel Guides
An excellent pocket guide with lots of information (though sometimes in brief), very good illustrations and photos and helpful hints not only for Athens, but also for other parts of Greece-Mainland to prepare your trips from Athens on.
Blue Guide - Athens, by R.Barber, C.Ross
This guide provides up-to-date and in-depth details on museums, churches, monasteries, and archaeological sites, accompanied by many plans. There is also a detailed street map, color maps of Attica, and suggestions for excursions out of the city.
Baedeker's Athens
Baedeker guides offer today's visitor a tremendous depth and reliability of information. This revised compact guide offers a foldout map in a clear plastic wallet as well as hundreds of full-color photos throughout detailed.
Athens / Attica by Michalis Toubis Ed., Athens
One of the best illustrated books I ever read about Athens! Also in deep information about the modern city and the ancient places. You can buy it in Athens at (almost) every news-stand or souvenir-shop.
Athens, Attica and the Megarid : An Archaeological Guide, by H.R.Goette
This exciting new guide is the ideal companion to Greece if you are a traveler with historical and archaeological interests, as it combines practical information with impeccable scholarly research. Beautifully illustrated with over 200 plates, maps, plans and drawings, including precise descriptions of routes and individual sites, artistic, historical, social and political background, unprecedented coverage outside Athens, detailed exploration of the post-classical, Byzantine and post-Byzantine periods.

Athens : The City Beneath the City, by N.Parlama, N.Stampolidis
A very extended guide about the findings andantiquities from the Metropolitan Railway (Metro) Excavations in Athens. Most of the findings are exhibited in the metro-stations and present a tribute in 500 color photos to 21st-century progress and the treasures of the past.
The archeology of Athens, by John M. Camp
The director of the Agora excavations of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, John M. Camp, presents a masterful interdisciplinary compendium of the monuments--first chronologically and then site by site--. He also describes the men responsible for various building projects (Perikles, e.g., gets his due), the buildings' uses and, in some cases, their destruction parts of the Acropolis were brought down, for instance, during the Peloponnesian War.
The Ancient City : Life in Classical Athens & Rome, by P.Connolly, H.Dodge
A comprehensive overview of the economy, political climate, governmental structure, popular culture, and magnificent architecture that uniquely defined each of these two majestic cities at the pinnacle of its golden age. Marvelous full-color drawings of the public and private structures of Athens and Rome are the perfect illustrative counterpart to the detailed description of city life.
World of Athens : An Introduction to Classical Athenian Culture , by Joint Associations of Classical Teachers
While this book covers the usual subjects like geography, religion, social apects, the wars etc., it gives enough information on everything to be the one book on classical Athens that you should have as a reference guide to further study.

Contents!content.html!Table of contents; Links!athlinks.html!Athens & Greece links; [ Athens!athlinks.html!Athens links; Greece!grlinks.html!Greece links; ] News!news.html!News from Greece; Tour!tour0e.html!Virtual tour in Athens; [ Chronology!tour0ae.html!Chronological Table, Books; Streets!tour1e.html!Athenian streets; ] Athens photos!photo00.html!Photo galleries about Athens; [ Center 1!photo01.html!The center of Athens 1; Center 2!photo02.html!The center of Athens 2; Center 3!photo03.html!Around Monastiraki; Center 4!photo04.html!Around Akropolis, Anafiotika; Plaka 1!photo05.html!At Plaka; Plaka 2!photo06.html!Still in Plaka; Byzantine 1!photo07.html!Byzantine Athens 1; Byzantine 2!photo08.html!Byzantine Athens 2; Archeological 1!photo09.html!Antiquities around the Acropolis; Archeological 2!photo10.html!Antiquities on the Acropolis; Archeological 3!photo11.html!On the ancient Agora; Archeological 4!photo12.html!The ancient cemetery Kerameikos; Suburbs 1!photo13.html!At Piraeus; Suburbs 2!photo14.html!At the South-Coast; People 1!photo15.html!The people of Athens 1; People 2!photo16.html!The people of Athens 2; ] Athens quiz!A quiz about Athens; [ Historical!quizengl.html!The historical Athens; Modern!quizengl2.html!The contemporary Athens; ] Athens Info!atheninfoe.html!Athens information for tourists; Impressum!atheneusengl.html!About the author; [ My poems!poetry0.html!A collection (in german); G. Karantonis!poetry1.html!Poems of G. Karantonis (german, greek); Search strategies!search.html!How to search in the internet; Anthroposophy!anthropo.html!Remarks about anthroposophy (german); Grenzlicht!http://www.grenzlicht,de!Powerplaces in the Harz (german); ] Your opinion!contact.html!A feedback from you;

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